Ozone effect is well known. I was talking about scattered light effect

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On Mon, 8 Apr 2019, 00:52 Oliver Wingenter, <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Here are some comments pertaining to Andrew's initial questions. Loss of
> ozone would have an impact on several health aspects. This lecture by
> Jose-Luis Jimenez maybe a good start on a literature search to assess
> optical impacts on UV.
> http://cires1.colorado.edu/jimenez/AtmChem/CHEM-5151_S05_L16.pdf
> On 4/7/2019 3:28 PM, Russell Seitz wrote:
>
>  Two centuries ago  Humboldt, Arago and others introduced 'Cyanometers',
> color wheels usedto measure how blue the sky appeared as altitude and
> locales varied.  As I've  already asked the inventor of the hand held
>  Dobson Unit meter , Forrest Mims, to develop parallel gadgets for water
> reflectivity and ocean color, perhaps Andrew  should request an electronic
> sky color gizmo--  the  self driving car folk at  Tesla and Apple might add
> the cost to their  Due Diligence bill.
>
> On Sunday, April 7, 2019 at 12:05:59 PM UTC-4, Andrew Lockley wrote:
>>
>> For example, if it made skies whiter, it could potentially be more
>> difficult (or easier) for drivers to pick out pedestrians. Over billions of
>> people and decades, this could have a significant effect.
>>
>> Andrew Lockley
>>
>> On Sun, 7 Apr 2019, 17:01 Douglas MacMartin, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> There’s not that much ground-based astronomy in UV, relative to optical
>>> and IR astronomy.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Impact on optical astronomy is straightforward; if you lose 5% of the
>>> direct light, you need 5% longer integration time to get same number of
>>> photons.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Impact on IR astronomy is less obvious, as limited by the background
>>> from the sky, which depends on water vapour and temperature through the
>>> atmospheric column (with most telescopes being at 14000’ or so).  Shouldn’t
>>> be hard to estimate, I’ve never gotten someone interested enough to do the
>>> calculations but I could try again (my other job is being on the design
>>> team for the Thirty Meter Telescope).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I did ask people whether they noted anything after Pinatubo, and the
>>> answer I got was no… that doesn’t mean there wasn’t an effect, but it
>>> wasn’t something that the astronomy community by and large remembered.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* [email protected] <[email protected]> *On
>>> Behalf Of *Russell Seitz
>>> *Sent:* Sunday, April 7, 2019 9:31 AM
>>> *To:* geoengineering <[email protected]>
>>> *Subject:* [geo] Re: SRM optical impacts
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Why would  reductions  in the  downwelling tropospheric light flux
>>> increase any of the above?    I'd instead  ask instrumental  astromomers
>>> what they think SO2 scattering would do in the UV , as they have a lot to
>>> lose from  scattered light, which can  cost them contrast and  degrade the
>>> signal to noise ratio in interferometry and spectroscopy.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Try the Magellan and OWL teams
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, April 3, 2019 at 7:47:35 AM UTC-4, Andrew Lockley wrote:
>>>
>>> Has there been any investigation of SRM effects on vision? Eg perceived
>>> glare, macular degeneration, corneal sunburn, vision development in
>>> infants, object recognition when driving (and their equivalent in animals)?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Andrew Lockley
>>>
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