Cirrus cloud seeding has potential to cool climate

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 178-182

  Storelvmo, T ^a   Kristjansson, J E ^b   Muri, H ^b   Pfeffer, M ^b   Barahona, D ^c   Nenes, A ^d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELETERIOUS EFFECTS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; OPTICAL THICKNESS; OPTIMAL CONCENTRATION; PARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; RECENT RESEARCHES; SEEDING PARTICLES; UPPER TROPOSPHERE;

CLOUD SEEDING; GLOBAL WARMING; OPTIMIZATION;

CLOUDS;

CIRRUS; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GLOBAL WARMING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84874920293     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL054201     Document Type: Article

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