02.05.2013

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Robock, Alan et al. (2013): Studying Geoengineering with Natural and Anthropogenic Analogs (accepted)

Robock, Alan; MacMartin, Douglas G.; Duren, Riley; Christensen, Matthew W. (2013): Studying geoengineering with natural and anthropogenic analogs. In: Climatic Change. DOI 10.1007/s10584-013-0777-5

"[T]here are also natural and anthropogenic analogs to SRM, such as volcanic eruptions in the case of stratospheric aerosol injection and ship tracks in the case of marine cloud albedo modification. It is essential to understand what we can learn from these analogs in order to validate models, particularly because of the problematic nature of outdoor experiments."

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01.04.2013

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Haywood, Jim M.; et al. (2013): Asymmetric forcing from stratospheric aerosols impacts Sahelian rainfall

Haywood, Jim M.; Jones, Andy; Bellouin, Nicolas; Stephenson, David (2013): Asymmetric forcing from stratospheric aerosols impacts Sahelian rainfall. In: Nature Climate change. DOI 10.1038/nclimate1857

Aerosol modeling study that is connected to SRM. "We suggest that sporadic volcanic eruptions in the Northern Hemisphere also strongly influence this gradient and cause Sahelian drought. Using de-trended observations from 1900 to 2010, we show that three of the four driest Sahelian summers were preceded by substantial Northern Hemisphere volcanic eruptions."

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20.09.2012

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Hulme, M. (2012): Climate change: Climate engineering through stratospheric aerosol injection

Hulme, M. (2012): Climate change: Climate engineering through stratospheric aerosol injection. In: Progress in Physical Geography 36 (5), pp. 694–705

Analysing stratospheric aerosols on different social and political sacales. "In this progress report on climate change, I examine the growing literature dealing with the proposal to engineer global climate through the deliberate injection of aerosols into the stratosphere."

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10.09.2012

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Laakso, Anton; et al. (2012): Stratospheric passenger flights are likely an inefficient geoengineering strategy

Laakso, Anton; Partanen, Antti-Ilari; Kokkola, Harri; Laaksonen, Ari; Lehtinen, Kari E. J.; Korhonen, Hannele (2012): Stratospheric passenger flights are likely an inefficient geoengineering strategy. In: Environ. Res. Lett 7 (3), S. 34021.

"Here, we show that using stratospheric passenger flights to inject sulfate aerosols would not cause significant forcing under realistic injection scenarios."

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05.06.2012

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Scientific American: Geoengineering Could Turn Skies White

"Efforts to reflect away the sun's rays might also make the sky whiter, one of many reasons some distrust such geoengineering schemes". Article refering to this paper.

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01.06.2012

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Kravitz, Ben; et al. (2012): Geoengineering: Whiter skies? In: Geophys. Res. Lett. 39 (11). [in press]

Kravitz, Ben; MacMartin, Douglas G.; Caldeira, Ken (2012): Geoengineering: Whiter skies? In: Geophys. Res. Lett. 39 (11). [in press] doi:10.1029/2012GL051652

Moddeling studie on stratospheric sulfate aerosols and the effect of whiter skies.

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31.05.2012

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English, J. M.; et al (2012): Microphysical simulations of sulfur burdens from stratospheric sulfur geoengineering

English, J. M.; Toon, O. B.; Mills, M. J. (2012): Microphysical simulations of sulfur burdens from stratospheric sulfur geoengineering. In: Atmos. Chem. Phys 12 (10), pp. 4775–4793. doi:10.5194/acp-12-4775-2012

Climate model studie on sulfur CE with results that show negative side effects.

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18.05.2012

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the guardian: Don't dismiss geoengineering – we may need it one day

Prof. James Wilson on the canceld aerosol project and the missed opportunities of CE. "Though the Spice project has been dealt a blow, more research is needed to assess our options for mitigating global warming"

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16.05.2012

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Nature News: Geoengineering experiment cancelled amid patent row

Cressey, Daniel (2012): Geoengineering experiment cancelled amid patent row. (News - e-mail statement). In: Nature. DOI 10.1038/nature.2012.10645

Matthew Watson canceled the SPICE experiment (Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering).

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12.05.2012

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Davidson, Peter (2012): Up and away. Could balloons protect the planet?

Davidson, Peter (2012): Up and away. Could balloons protect the planet? In: tce (The Chemical Engineer) (5), pp. 28–32.

Calculation of using balloons and titanium dioxid for SRM.

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