Present - day observational capabilities lack sufficient capacity to monitor the environmental effects of an albedo - modification deployment. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
One of the difficulties studying changes in the frequency and intensity of cyclones is that the record of past storms is inhomogeneous, due to changes in observational capabilities and how storms have been measured and recorded. (tamino.wordpress.com)
In order to improve their observations, Zebker and Paul Segal, also of Stanford University, proposed launching something like an array of dedicated satellites, with specific observational capabilities that could document movement more often and at smaller scalesand even monitor only certain types of materials. (scientificamerican.com)