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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-13097-2018
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The climate effects of increasing ocean albedo: an idealized representation of solar geoengineering
Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
Philip J. Rasch
Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
Hailong Wang
Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
Alan Robock
Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Corey Gabriel
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, USA
Olivier Boucher
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, CNRS / Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
Jason N. S. Cole
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, Canada
Jim Haywood
Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, UK
College of Engineering, Mathematics, and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
Duoying Ji
State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
Andy Jones
Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, UK
Andrew Lenton
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
John C. Moore
State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
Helene Muri
Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Department of Energy and Process Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Ulrike Niemeier
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Steven Phipps
Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Hauke Schmidt
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Shingo Watanabe
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan
Shuting Yang
Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
Jin-Ho Yoon
School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, South Korea
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- Impact of stratospheric aerosol injection on ocean surface circulation in the Gulf of Guinea Y. Pomalegni et al. https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-5295/ae759a
- Response of the Equatorial Atlantic Cold Tongue to Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering Y. Pomalegni et al. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41810-021-00127-0
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- Transboundary effects from idealized regional geoengineering D. MacMartin et al. https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/acf441
- Impacts of three types of solar geoengineering on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation M. Xie et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-4581-2022
- CO2-equivalence metrics for surface albedo change based on the radiative forcing concept: a critical review R. Bright & M. Lund https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-9887-2021
- Uncertainty and the basis for confidence in solar geoengineering research B. Kravitz & D. MacMartin https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-019-0004-7
- Estimating the Impact of Artificially Injected Stratospheric Aerosols on the Global Mean Surface Temperature in the 21th Century S. Soldatenko https://doi.org/10.3390/cli6040085
- World Climate Research Programme lighthouse activity: an assessment of major research gaps in solar radiation modification research J. Haywood et al. https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2025.1507479
- Review of Land Surface Albedo: Variance Characteristics, Climate Effect and Management Strategy X. Zhang et al. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14061382
- Climate Risk Management K. Keller et al. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-earth-080320-055847
- Climate More Responsive to Marine Cloud Brightening Than Ocean Albedo Modification: A Model Study M. Zhao et al. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD033256
- Global and regional thermosteric and dynamic sea level change under stratospheric aerosol injection F. Bonou et al. https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-5295/ae15b6
- Solar Geoengineering in the Polar Regions: A Review A. Duffey et al. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EF003679
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- Potential impact of stratospheric aerosol geoengineering on sea surface salinity in the eastern tropical Atlantic Ocean J. Agada et al. https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-5295/adf251
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Short summary
Marine cloud brightening has been proposed as a means of geoengineering/climate intervention, or deliberately altering the climate system to offset anthropogenic climate change. In idealized simulations that highlight contrasts between land and ocean, we find that the globe warms, including the ocean due to transport of heat from land. This study reinforces that no net energy input into the Earth system does not mean that temperature will necessarily remain unchanged.
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