Geoengineering as a design problem

Earth System Dynamics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 469-497

  Kravitz, Ben ^a   Macmartin, Douglas G ^b,c   Wang, Hailong ^a   Rasch, Philip J ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; INCIDENT SOLAR RADIATION; SOLAR RADIATION;

ARCTIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE FORCINGS; DESIGN PROBLEMS; EVALUATION MODELING; GLOBAL-MEAN TEMPERATURE; MANAGING UNCERTAINTY; STATE OF THE ART; TROPICAL PRECIPITATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

EID: 84971264247     PISSN: 21904979     EISSN: 21904987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/esd-7-469-2016     Document Type: Article

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