Articles | Volume 18, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-2769-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-2769-2018
Research article
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27 Feb 2018
Research article |  | 27 Feb 2018

Sensitivity of the radiative forcing by stratospheric sulfur geoengineering to the amount and strategy of the SO2injection studied with the LMDZ-S3A model

Christoph Kleinschmitt, Olivier Boucher, and Ulrich Platt

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We use a state-of-the-art stratospheric aerosol model to study geoengineering through stratospheric sulfur injections. We find that the efficiency may decrease more drastically for larger injections than previously estimated and that injections at higher altitude are not more effective. This study may provide additional evidence that this proposed geoengineering technique is still more complicated, probably less effective, and may implicate stronger side effects than initially thought.
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