Monat: März 2015

Gabriel, C. J.; Robock, A. (2015): Stratospheric geoengineering impacts on El Niño/Southern Oscillation

Gabriel, C. J.; Robock, A. (2015): Stratospheric geoengineering impacts on El Niño/Southern Oscillation. In: Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss. 15 (6), S. 9173–9202. DOI: 10.5194/acpd-15-9173-2015.

To examine the impact of proposed stratospheric geoengineering schemes on the amplitude and frequency of El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) variations we examine climate model simulations from the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP) G1–G4 experiments. Here we compare tropical Pacific behavior under anthropogenic global warming (AGW) using the representative concentration pathway resulting in 4.5 W m−2 radiative forcing at the end of the 21st Century, the RCP4.5 scenario, with that under G1–G4 and under historical model simulations.

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Reynolds, Jesse (2015): The International Legal Framework for Climate Engineering

Reynolds, Jesse (2015): The International Legal Framework for Climate Engineering (Geoengineering Our Climate? Working Paper and Opinion Article Series).

„This chapter describes some international law which is applicable to climate engineering, with a focus on international environmental law. It closes with a brief synthesis and some recommendations for future developments.“

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Muri, Helene; et al. (2015): Tropical rainforest response to marine sky brightening climate engineering

Muri, Helene; Niemeier, Ulrike; Kristjánsson, Jón Egill (2015): Tropical rainforest response to marine sky brightening climate engineering. In: Geophys. Res. Lett., S. n/a. DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063363.

„Here, the gross primary productivity (GPP) response of tropical rainforests to climate engineering via marine sky brightening under a future scenario is investigated in three Earth system models. The model response is diverse, and in two of the three models, the tropical GPP shows a decrease from the marine sky brightening climate engineering.“

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