Reflecting on 50 years of geoengineering research

Earth's Future

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 10-17

  Caldeira, Ken ^a   Bala, Govindasamy ^b  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

climate; geoengineering; solar radiation management

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010451114     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23284277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016EF000454     Document Type: Note

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