Simulated long-term climate response to idealized solar geoengineering

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 2209-2217

  Cao, Long ^a   Duan, Lei ^a   Bala, Govindasamy ^b   Caldeira, Ken ^c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate intervention; climate modeling; climate response; ocean meridional overturning; solar geoengineering

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELS; EARTH (PLANET);

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; CLIMATE INTERVENTION; CLIMATE RESPONSE; GEOENGINEERING; GLOBAL MEAN WARMING; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 84961916159     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL068079     Document Type: Article

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