Geoengineering by cloud seeding: Influence on sea ice and climate system

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Rasch, Philip J ^a   Latham, John ^b,c   Chen, Chih Chieh ^b  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aerosol indirect effect; Climate change; Cloud seeding; Geo engineering; Global warming

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; GLOBAL WARMING; SEA ICE; SEAWATER EFFECTS;

AEROSOL INDIRECT EFFECT; BOUNDARY LAYER CLOUDS; CLIMATIC FEATURES; GAS CONCENTRATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GEO-ENGINEERING; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE MODELS; SEEDING STRATEGIES;

CLOUD SEEDING;

EID: 76149088442     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/4/4/045112     Document Type: Article

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