Benefits, Risks and Costs of Geoengineering
Published October 2009
Reference Documents:
CESM1(WACCM) Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering Large Ensemble Project
November 2018 | Authors: Simone Tilmes 1 , Jadwiga H. Richter 2 , Ben Kravitz 3 , Douglas G. MacMartin 4 , Michael J. Mills 5 , Isla R. Simpson 6 , Anne S. Glanville 6 , John T. Fasullo … More …
Aerosol Conferences 2021/2022/2023
January 2021 | Source “Aerosol Conferences 2021/2022/2023 is an indexed listing of upcoming meetings, seminars, congresses, workshops, programs, continuing CME courses, trainings, summits, and weekly, annual or monthly symposiums. Aerosol Conferences 2021/2022/2023 lists relevant events for national/international researchers, scientists, scholars, … More …
China’s geoengineering push dangerous for the region
21 December 2020 | Daily Sun | Source “Amidst India-China clashes in the Galwan Valley and continuing border tensions, China’s alleged attempt to alter the Galwan river and potentially create flash floods to disrupt Indian infrastructure projects and military deployment … More …
Cloud seeding as a technique for studying aerosol-cloud interactions in marine stratocumulus
19 July 2007 | Authors: Virendra P. Ghate, Bruce A. Albrecht, Pavlos Kollias, Haflidi H. Jonsson, Daniel W. Breed | Geophysical Research Letters | Source “Giant hygroscopic aerosols were introduced into a solid marine stratocumulus cloud (200 m thick) by … More …
Nanotechnology to Develop Cloud Seeding Materials for Rain Enhancement
2018 | Professor Linda Zou | Source “Clouds in the atmosphere contain condensed water mixed with fine particles. The conditions of supersaturation in the atmosphere show that the formation of water droplets happens with heterogeneous nucleation, which requires aerosol … More …
Cloud Seeding System
January 15, 1974 | Inventor William C. Woemack | US Patent 3,785,557 | “A cloud seeding system comprising a solid propellant rocket motor boosted vehicle and means for launching the vehicle for transporting cloud seeding material to clouds for … More …
Method of cloud seeding
October 25, 1994 | Inventor Graeme K. Mather |US Patent 5,357,865 | “A method of cloud seeding for precipitation enhancement comprises releasing hygroscopic seeding particles from a seeding flare 10. The particles are obtained by burning, in the flare, … More …
High altitude atmospheric injection system and method
March 25, 2010 | Inventor Alistair K. ChanRoderick A. HydeNathan P. MyhrvoldClarence T. TegreeneLowell L. Wood, JR. | US 2010/0071771 A1 | “0036 Referring now to FIG.7, another exemplary embodiment of a conduit 700 is depicted. Conduit 700 may comprise an … More …
NOAA Earth’s Radiation Budget (ERB) Initiative and Stratospheric Aerosol Measurements
FY 2020 Congressional Funding to NOAA | Commerce, Justice, Science & Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, approved 17 December 2019 “Earth’s Radiation Budget. ‐ In lieu of House language regarding Earth’s radiation budget, the agreement provides no less than $4,000,000 … More …
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY OFFICE OF SCIENCE BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
October 21, 2020 |ATMOSPHERIC SYSTEM RESEARCH (ASR) FUNDING OPPORTUNITY ANNOUNCEMENT (FOA) NUMBER: DE-FOA-0002391 “Program Objective The goal of ASR is to quantify the interactions among aerosols, clouds, precipitation, and radiation to improve understanding of key cloud, aerosol, precipitation, … More …
ATMOSPHERIC SYSTEM RESEARCH (ASR)
November 20, 2019 |DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY OFFICE OF SCIENCE BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH | FUNDING OPPORTUNITY ANNOUNCEMENT (FOA) NUMBER: DE-FOA-0002198 “SUMMARY The DOE SC program in Biological and Environmental Research (BER) hereby announces its interest in receiving applications for Atmospheric … More …
China to expand weather modification program to cover area larger than India
December 4, 2020 | By James Griffiths, CNN | “Hong Kong (CNN)China this week revealed plans to drastically expand an experimental weather modification program to cover an area of over 5.5 million square kilometers (2.1 million square miles) — … More …