Abstract
Atmospheric greenhouse gas emissions show no declining trend, which has motivated ideas of deliberate climate engineering by modifying the reflectivity of the Earth. One suggested method is cloud brightening, in which artificial emissions of aerosol particles are used to enhance the reflectivity of clouds. While climate models suggest that cloud brightening might be able to offset at least some of the predicted global warming, large uncertainties remain related to the efficiency as well as to the environmental and regional climate impacts of the method.
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Korhonen, H., Partanen, AI. (2014). Cloud Brightening and Climate Change. In: Freedman, B. (eds) Global Environmental Change. Handbook of Global Environmental Pollution, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5784-4_50
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