The climate effects of increasing ocean albedo:  an idealized representation of solar geoengineering

Kravitz, Ben; Rasch, Philip J.; Wang, Hailong; Robock, Alan; Gabriel, Corey; Boucher, Olivier; Cole, Jason N. S.; Haywood, Jim; Ji, Duoying; Jones, Andy; Lenton, Andrew; Moore, John C.; Muri, Helene; Niemeier, Ulrike; Phipps, Steven; Schmidt, Hauke; Watanabe, Shingo; Yang, Shuting; Yoon, Jin-Ho

doi:10.5194/acp-18-13097-2018

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The climate effects of increasing ocean albedo: an idealized representation of solar geoengineering

Ben Kravitz, Philip J. Rasch, Hailong Wang, Alan Robock, Corey Gabriel, Olivier Boucher, Jason N. S. Cole, Jim Haywood, Duoying Ji, Andy Jones, Andrew Lenton, John C. Moore, Helene Muri, Ulrike Niemeier, Steven Phipps, Hauke Schmidt, Shingo Watanabe, Shuting Yang, and Jin-Ho Yoon

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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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