An overview of geoengineering of climate using stratospheric sulphate aerosols

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1882, 2008, Pages 4007-4037

  Rasch, Philip J ^a   Tilmes, Simone ^a   Turco, Richard P ^b   Robock, Alan ^c   Oman, Luke ^d   Chen, Chih Chieh ^a   Stenchikov, Georgiy L ^c   Garcia, Rolando R ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Geoengineering; Global warming; Sulphate aerosols

Indexed keywords

ACID RAIN; AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERICS; ATOMIZERS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONTROL; GASES; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; NONMETALS; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; POLLUTION CONTROL; SOLAR ENERGY; SULFUR; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TROPOSPHERE;

BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; CLIMATE MODELLING; CLIMATE SYSTEMS; EARTH SYSTEMS; EN ERGY SPECTRUM; GEOENGINEERING; HETEROGENEOUS CHEMISTRY; OZONE DEPLETION; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES; SMALL PERTURBATIONS; SULPHATE; SULPHATE AEROSOL; SULPHATE AEROSOLS; SULPHUR SPECIES; TEMPERATURE INCREASE;

AEROSOLS;

SULFATE;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE; DISASTER; ECOSYSTEM; ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW;

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DISASTERS; ECOSYSTEM; ENGINEERING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; SULFATES;

EID: 52949152469     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0131     Document Type: Review

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