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Can marine cloud brightening reduce coral bleaching? [PDF]

Atmospheric Science Letters, 2013
AbstractIncreases in coral bleaching events over the last few decades have been largely caused by rising sea surface temperatures (SST), and continued warming is expected to cause even greater increases through this century. We use a Global Climate Model to examine the potential of marine cloud brightening (MCB) to cool oceanic surface waters in three ...
John Latham, Ben Parkes, Alan Gadian
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Physical science research needed to evaluate the viability and risks of marine cloud brightening. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Marine cloud brightening (MCB) is the deliberate injection of aerosol particles into shallow marine clouds to increase their reflection of solar radiation and reduce the amount of energy absorbed by the climate system. From the physical science perspective, the consensus of a broad international group of scientists is that the viability of MCB will ...
Feingold G, Ghate VP, Russell LM, Blossey P, Cantrell W, Christensen MW, Diamond MS, Gettelman A, Glassmeier F, Gryspeerdt E, Haywood J, Hoffmann F, Kaul CM, Lebsock M, McComiskey AC, McCoy DT, Ming Y, Mülmenstädt J, Possner A, Prabhakaran P, Quinn PK, Schmidt KS, Shaw RA, Singer CE, Sorooshian A, Toll V, Wan JS, Wood R, Yang F, Zhang J, Zheng X.   +30 more
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Weakening of hurricanes via marine cloud brightening (MCB) [PDF]

Atmospheric Science Letters, 2012
AbstractThis paper examines the potential to cool ocean surface waters in regions of hurricane genesis and early development. This would be achieved by seeding, with copious quantities of seawater cloud condensation nuclei (CCN), low‐level maritime stratocumulus clouds covering these regions or those at the source of incoming currents.
John Latham, Ben Parkes, Alan Gadian
exaly   +5 more sources

How marine cloud brightening could also affect stratospheric ozone. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Stratospheric ozone plays a crucial role in life and ecosystems on Earth, with a vast amount of research focused on the effects of human activities on ozone. Yet, impacts of tropospheric climate intervention methods like marine cloud brightening (MCB) have not previously been considered to reach the stratosphere.
Bednarz EM, Haywood JM, Visioni D, Butler AH, Jones A.   +4 more
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Rethinking the Susceptibility‐Based Strategy for Marine Cloud Brightening Climate Intervention: Experiment With CESM2 and Its Implications

Geophysical Research Letters
Previous modeling studies indicate that even though marine cloud brightening under a susceptibility‐based strategy is effective in reducing the global average surface temperature, it triggers a La Niña‐like sea‐surface temperature response with cooling ...
Chih‐Chieh Chen, Jadwiga H. Richter, Walker R. Lee, Douglas G. MacMartin, Ben Kravitz   +4 more
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Manipulating marine stratocumulus cloud amount and albedo: a process-modelling study of aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions in response to injection of cloud condensation nuclei [PDF]

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2011
We use a cloud-system-resolving model to study marine-cloud brightening. We examine how injected aerosol particles that act as cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) are transported within the marine boundary layer and how the additional particles in clouds ...
H. Wang, P. J. Rasch, G. Feingold
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Advancing Earth System Science With the NASA Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem (PACE) Satellite Mission. [PDF]

Glob Chang Biol
The Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission extends and improves upon NASA's 30+ years of satellite observations of Earth's living ocean, atmosphere, and land. Its unprecedented, high‐resolution data support critical research in climate forcing, ecosystem health, and biogeochemical cycling, while aiding socioeconomic applications such ...
Werdell PJ, Cairns B, Caplan SA, Cetinić I, Foley SR, Franz BA, Gao M, Fasnacht ZT, Huemmrich KF, Ibrahim A, Knobelspiesse KD, Mannino A, McKinna LIW, Poulin C, Rajapakshe C, Sayer AM.   +15 more
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The Radiative and Cloud Responses to Sea Salt Aerosol Engineering in GFDL Models

Geophysical Research Letters, 2023
Marine cloud brightening is a proposal to counteract global warming by increasing sea salt aerosol emissions. In theory, this increases the cloud droplet number concentration of subtropical marine stratocumulus decks, increasing cloud brightness and ...
Naser G. A. Mahfouz, Spencer A. Hill, Huan Guo, Yi Ming   +3 more
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The effects of timing and rate of marine cloud brightening aerosol injection on albedo changes during the diurnal cycle of marine stratocumulus clouds [PDF]

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2013
The marine-cloud brightening geoengineering technique has been suggested as a possible means of counteracting the positive radiative forcing associated with anthropogenic atmospheric CO₂ increases.
A. K. L. Jenkins, P. M. Forster, L. S. Jackson   +2 more
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Success of restoration strategies in preventing extirpation of 2 critically endangered coral species. [PDF]

Conserv Biol
Abstract An unprecedented marine heatwave in 2023 caused widespread coral bleaching and mortality throughout the Caribbean. In the Florida Keys (USA), 2 foundation species, elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) and staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis), were severely affected.
Muller EM, Ladd MC, Karp R, Montoya-Maya PH, Kuffner IB, Baker AC, Bartels E, Bourque A, Clark AS, Cox N, D'Alessandro M, Daughtry B, Firchau B, Fix L, Gilliam D, Hesley D, Lewis C, Lirman D, Lustic C, Macauley K, Moore J, Nedimyer K, O'Neil K, Parsons KT, Smith KM, Spadaro J, Thomasson BC, Unsworth JD, Vaughan D, Miller MW.   +29 more
europepmc   +2 more sources