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Research article
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06 Nov 2017
Research article |
| 06 Nov 2017
Marine cloud brightening – as effective without clouds
Lars Ahlm
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Andy Jones
Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, UK
Camilla W. Stjern
Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Center for International Climate and Environmental Research – Oslo (CICERO), Oslo, Norway
Helene Muri
Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Ben Kravitz
Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
Jón Egill Kristjánsson
Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
deceased
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We present results from coordinated simulations with three Earth system models focusing on the response of Earth’s radiation balance to the injection of sea salt particles. We find that in most regions the effective radiative forcing by the injected particles is equally large in cloudy and clear-sky conditions, suggesting a more important role of the aerosol direct effect in sea spray climate engineering than previously thought.
We present results from coordinated simulations with three Earth system models focusing on the...
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