Irvine, Peter J.; et al. (2018): Brief communication. Understanding solar geoengineerings potential to limit sea level rise requires attention from cryosphere experts
Irvine, Peter J.; Keith, David W.; Moore, John (2018): Brief communication. Understanding solar geoengineering’s potential to limit sea level rise requires attention from cryosphere experts. In The Cryosphere Discuss., pp.[nbsp]1–15. DOI: 10.5194/tc-2017-279.
„Stratospheric aerosol geoengineering, a form of solar geoengineering, is a proposal to add a reflective layer of aerosol to the stratosphere to reduce net radiative forcing and so to reduce the risks of climate change. Solar geoengineering could reduce temperatures and so slow melt, but the efficacy of solar geoengineering at offsetting changes to the cryosphere is uncertain. For example, shortwave forcing acts more strongly on the surface than longwave forcing so solar geoengineering would reduce surface melt more effectively but would also suppress the global hydrological cycle potentially reducing accumulation on glaciers.„