Hi Some of you may know that Nadine and I have been working on a paper on ocean albedo changes in an OIF engineered world. Plankton blooms absorb more sunlight than bare water in the IR, so this makes the ocean a little bit warmer, when a bloom occurs.
As we started investigation of this phenomenon, it became apparent that properly interactive ocean albedo may be missing from some of the most common models, and that this may be causing issues far beyond OIF. Our UVic spin up shows a 0.3C globally averaged effect, just from having a better model for albedo related energy balance. We're therefore particularly interested to hear from people with experience of using a variety of climate models, to see how each considers ocean albedo. In particular, we're interested in knowing whether there's a proper model for the changes to albedo and consequential energy balance from phytoplankton, but we'd also be keen to hear about albedo feedbacks with other interactive elements, such as whitecaps, wave height, etc. We'd rather hear twice than not at all, so please do let us know what you know (or suspect). Thanks A -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
