Kravitz, Ben; et al. (2018): The climate effects of increasing ocean albedo. An idealized representation of solar geoengineering

Kravitz, Ben; Rasch, Philip J.; Wang, Hailong; Robock, Alan; Gabriel, Corey; Boucher, Olivier et al. (2018): The climate effects of increasing ocean albedo. An idealized representation of solar geoengineering. In Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., pp.[nbsp]1–29. DOI: 10.5194/acp-2018-340.

Marine cloud brightening has been proposed as a means of geoengineering/climate intervention, or deliberately altering the climate system to offset anthropogenic climate change. As an idealized representation of marine cloud brightening, this paper discusses experiment G1ocean-albedo of the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP), involving an abrupt quadrupling of the CO2 concentration and an instantaneous increase in ocean albedo to maintain approximate net top-of-atmosphere radiative flux balance. Eleven Earth System Models are relatively consistent in their temperature, radiative flux, and hydrological cycle responses to this experiment.

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