Investigation of the surface and circulation impacts of cloud-brightening geoengineering

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 7527-7543

  Baughman, E ^a   Gnanadesikan, A ^b   Degaetano, A ^c   Adcroft, A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Cloud forcing; Clouds; ENSO; Hurricanes typhoons

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC WARMING; CLIMATE SYSTEM; CLOUD ALBEDO; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEI; CLOUD FORCING; CLOUD MODIFICATION; ENSO; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; GEOENGINEERING; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; GLOBAL COUPLED MODEL; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; SOUTH CHINA SEA; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TROPICAL ATLANTIC; VERTICAL WIND SHEAR; WALKER CIRCULATION; WESTERN PACIFIC;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; GREENHOUSE GASES; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; SOLAR RADIATION;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ALBEDO; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE GAS; HURRICANE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TYPHOON; WALKER CIRCULATION; WIND SHEAR;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); JAPAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST); SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 84870013856     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00282.1     Document Type: Article

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