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Harnessing stratospheric diffusion barriers for enhanced climate geoengineering
Institute for Mechanical Systems, Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland
Ben Kravitz
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Indiana University,
Bloomington, IN, USA
Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
Douglas G. MacMartin
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell
University, Ithaca, NY, USA
George Haller
Institute for Mechanical Systems, Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland
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There exist robust and influential material features evolving within turbulent fluids that behave as the skeleton for fluid transport pathways. Recent developments in applied mathematics have made the identification of these time-varying structures more rigorous and insightful than ever. Using short-range wind forecasts, we detail how and why these material features can be exploited in an effort to optimize the spread of aerosols in the stratosphere for climate geoengineering.
There exist robust and influential material features evolving within turbulent fluids that...
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