"Climate changes" by Budyko, on page 244, discusses why tropospheric aerosols are not as effective as stratospheric aerosols for climate modification. 1) life time is only a couple of weeks 2) Particle size becomes too big quickly and hence not effective for scattering 3) Presence of clouds make them less effective 4) absorption by aerosols of near IR shortwave could partially cancel the cooling by scattering.
Bala On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Nathan Currier <[email protected]>wrote: > Does anyone know of any published papers exploring the use of > tropospheric aerosol use? > > cheers, > > Nathan > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "geoengineering" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en. > > -- Best wishes, ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. G. Bala Associate Professor Center for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Indian Institute of Science Bangalore - 560 012 India Tel: +91 80 2293 3428 +91 80 2293 2075 Fax: +91 80 2360 0865 +91 80 2293 3425 Email: [email protected] [email protected] Web:http://caos.iisc.ernet.in/faculty/gbala/gbala.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en.
