Management of trade-offs in geoengineering through optimal choice of non-uniform radiative forcing

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 365-368

  MacMartin, Douglas G ^a   Keith, David W ^b   Kravitz, Ben ^c   Caldeira, Ken ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; POLLUTION CONTROL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIATIVE FORCING; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TRADE-OFF;

EID: 84875709128     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1722     Document Type: Article

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