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Articles | Volume 11, issue 4
Articles | Volume 11, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-11-1051-2020
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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-11-1051-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 11, issue 4
Research article
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23 Nov 2020
Research article |  | 23 Nov 2020

Expanding the design space of stratospheric aerosol geoengineering to include precipitation-based objectives and explore trade-offs

Walker Lee, Douglas MacMartin, Daniele Visioni, and Ben Kravitz

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The injection of aerosols into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight could reduce global warming, but this type of geoengineering would also impact other variables like precipitation and sea ice. In this study, we model various climate impacts of geoengineering on a 3-D graph to show how trying to meet one climate goal will affect other variables. We also present two computer simulations which validate our model and show that geoengineering could regulate precipitation as well as temperature.
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