Benefits, Risks and Costs of Geoengineering
Published October 2009
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Geoengineering: Governance and Technology Policy
10 January 2011 | Congressional Research Service | In the absence of a comprehensive policy direction, technological advances are creating alternatives to the traditional approaches to climate change (mitigation and adaptation). If deployed, these new technologies could modify the Earth’s … More …
FUNDAMENTALS OF METEOROLOGY
2012 | GlobalSecurity.org /military | Chapter 1 This study consists of physics, chemistry, and dynamics of the atmosphere. Link to Full _Document_FUNDAMENTALS OF METEOROLOGY_2012 Meteorology as Infrastructural Globalism … More …
FUEL TO THE FIRE
February 2019 | Center For International Environmental Law (CIEL) How Geoengineering Threatens to Entrench Fossil Fuels and Accelerate the Climate Crisis Link To CIEL_FUEL-TO-THE-FIRE_How-Geoengineering-Threatens-to-Entrench-Fossil-Fuels-and-Accelerate-the-Climate-Crisis_February-2019 Grouped together under the name of “geoengineering,” a variety of earth-altering techniques promise to serve as a … More …
RAINFALL ESTIMATION FROM SIGNAL ATTENUATION OF CELLULAR PHONE NETWORK (MICROWAVE LINK)
May 2017 | Obakeng Caspar Mathake | University of Botswana “Accurate rainfall measurements with high spatial and temporal resolutions are needed for water resource management, hydrological applications, agriculture, weather forecasting, climate research, validation of satellite based precipitation and many more applications… …Mobile communications … More …
Flood or Drought: How Do Aerosols Affect Precipitation?
January 2008 | Daniel Rosenfeld | Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Opposing Effects of Aerosols on Clouds and Precipitation The radiative effects of aerosols on clouds mostly act to suppress precipitation, because they decrease the amount of solar radiation that reaches … More …
Cloud Seeding; It’s Prospects and Concerns in the Modern World
1 October 2018 | Shaista Malik1, Haleema Bano1, Rauoof Ahmad Rather2* and Shakeel Ahmad 3 Cloud seeding has never been statistically proven to work but it is claimed to increase precipitation (Pelley, 2016). The most common chemicals used for cloud … More …
Response to Statement of Work – Hurricane Aerosol and Microphysics Program
29 July 2009 | United States Department of Commerce | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) | Thank you for the opportunity to review the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Statement of work for the Hurricane Aerosol and Microphysics Program … More …
Stratospheric Aerosol Modification (SAM)
2017 | Max-Planck-Institut fur Meteorologie | Research in this area gained traction after Crutzen’s call for investigating the effects of continuous stratospheric injections of sulfur into the atmosphere (Crutzen, 2007), also called sulfur aerosol modification (SAM) Link To Article … More …
Geoengineering by the Stratospheric Injection of Sulfur
Fall 2009 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering The focus of this proposal will be on the unintended consequences of one particular geoengineering scheme: the injection of sulfur aerosols into the stratosphere. Link … More …
Aviation Meteorological Services | Australian Bureau of Meteorology
3 October 2018 | Australian Government | Ted Williams Link To _DOCUMENT_MET-Symposium-Aust-Bureau-Met Aviation Weather Services Link To Source 12-15 February 2019 | Commission For Aeronautical Meteorology Management Group / CAeM-MG / 2019 | Melbourne, Australia This document provides a status … More …
Advances in Meteorological Science and Technology – China
2013-2017 | 林巧 | (作者单位:中国气象局气象干部培训学院) (Author: China Meteorological Administration Meteorological Cadre Training College) From 2013 to 2017, the Fourth Working Seminar of the Teaching Steering Committee of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences of the Ministry of Education (referred to as … More …
Solar Radiation Management (SRM)
2010 | International Risk Governance Council | IRGC Solar Radiation Management In 2010, IRGC published an opinion paper by Granger Morgan (CMU) on the need to engage in research and some experimentation about solar radiation management (SRM): Cooling the earth … More …