Even with all these limiting processes, trace emissions of SO2 from mainly coal plants around the world exert a cooling influence of something like 1-2 W/m2. Good thing they are not emitting all their SO2 into the stratosphere.
Mike On 3/15/12 11:52 PM, "Govindasamy Bala" <[email protected]> wrote: > "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] >> <mailto:geoengineering%[email protected]> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en. >> > > -- 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.
