Ken
But if sulphate aerosols spread to lower levels would they not act as
cloud condensation nuclei and so form a blanket of drop large enought to
reflect the long waves?
Stephen
Ken Caldeira wrote:
If we are talking about Latham's proposal, there would be no reason to make clouds in
Folks,
One of the big selling points of Stratospheric Aerosol Injection was that
it had a real world example, Pinatubo. Let's use that advantage and look
closely at the *Winter* time data 5 yrs before and 5 years after. I
personally am not comfortable with accepting a casual discounting of the
To what degree of likely are we talking about? Also, would there be
issues with clumping which could create condensed areas within the SRM
layer which could mimic PSC? Further, will the SRM particles
*augment*PSC's warming ability when the 2 mix?
The fact that the IR energy will be coming in