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Analytical solutions of globally averaged energy-balance model to estimate the efficiency of controlled forcing on the climate in the result of sulfate aerosol emissions into the stratosphere are obtained. According to obtained results, the sulfate aerosol emissions, needed to prevent the warming, make up from 2 to 12 Mt S/year in the end of the 21st century depending on the anthropogenic impact scenario and aerosol parameters. In the case of the cessation of such compensative emissions of sulfate aerosols, the global temperature increase rate may reach 3 K per decade, that is several times more than values, derived when taking account of greenhouse effect only.
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Original Russian Text © A.V. Chernokul’skii, A.V. Eliseev, I.I. Mokhov, 2010, published in Meteorologiya i Gidrologiya, 2010, No. 5, pp. 16–26.
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Chernokul’skii, A.V., Eliseev, A.V. & Mokhov, I.I. Analytical estimations of the efficiency of climate warming prevention by controlled aerosol emissions into the stratosphere. Russ. Meteorol. Hydrol. 35, 301–309 (2010). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068373910050018
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