According to a Perspective, research into the prospect of stratospheric aerosol geoengineering will require identifying and prioritizing critical uncertainties and is likely to be primarily model-based in the short term, and any possible future field experimentation is expected to be small-scale, given that large-scale experiments are appropriate only after global consensus to deploy stratospheric aerosols, according to the authors.
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Article #18-11022: "Mission-driven research for stratospheric aerosol geoengineering," by Douglas G. MacMartin and Ben Kravitz.
MEDIA CONTACT: Douglas G. MacMartin, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; tel: 650-619-9341; e-mail: macmartin@cornell.edu
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences