Marine cloud brightening

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

Volumn 370, Issue 1974, 2012, Pages 4217-4262

  Latham, John ^a,d   Bower, Keith ^d   Choularton, Tom ^d   Coe, Hugh ^d   Connolly, Paul ^d   Cooper, Gary ^f   Craft, Tim ^d   Foster, Jack ^f   Gadian, Alan ^e   Galbraith, Lee ^g   Iacovides, Hector ^d   Johnston, David ^g   Launder, Brian ^d   Leslie, Brian ^g   Meyer, John ^g   Neukermans, Armand ^g   Ormond, Bob ^g   Parkes, Ben ^e   Rasch, Phillip ^c   Rush, John ^g   Salter, Stephen ^f   Stevenson, Tom ^f   Wang, Hailong ^c   Wang, Qin ^g   Wood, Rob ^b   more..

^a Atmospheric Research   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^g FICER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud brightening Geoengineering Albedo Cloud modelling Spray technology Field experiment

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLOUDS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; GLOBAL WARMING; RAIN; SOLAR RADIATION;

CLIMATE IMPACTS; CLOUD ALBEDO; CLOUD DROPLET NUMBER; CRITICAL ISSUES; FIELD RESEARCH; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GEOENGINEERING; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERACTING PROCESS; MARINE STRATOCUMULUS; MARINE STRATOCUMULUS CLOUDS; MONODISPERSE; PRIMARY OBJECTIVE; SEA-ICE COVER; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; SPATIAL SCALE; SPRAY TECHNOLOGIES; TECHNOLOGY TESTING;

CLOUD SEEDING;

EID: 84864661881     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0086     Document Type: Article

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