Sentences with phrase «kind of albedo»

That's the only kind of albedo - modification geoengineering I could countenance, and by the time that is needed, presumably we'll have the wisdom to deploy it safely and the technology to make it robust.

Of many different kinds of albedo, I am most interested in one that measures the fraction of insolation that is not being absorbed.

Not exact matches

We talk through some of the most pressing issues in modern climate science: our chances of staying below 1.5 °C of warming without climate engineering, climate engineering with land - based albedo modifications, and the kinds of societal transformations needed for radical mitigation.

These models all suggest potentially serious limitations for this kind of study: UVic does not simulate the atmospheric feedbacks that determine climate sensitivity in more realistic models, but rather fixes the atmospheric part of the climate sensitivity as a prescribed model parameter (surface albedo, however, is internally computed).

eg how big is the «expected» impact on the climate / temps etc from that kind of change / feedback in ASI albedo

The ambiguity over the definition of ice - free is not really important as far as the strong albedo feedbacks magnifying the warming of the region, so is kind of a red herring in the discussion.

Is climate science making this kind of error, and not knowing they are making this kind of error of simply using too many approximations of real world variables (albedos, transmission losses, cloud reflections, and everything else) that are NOT simple one - point constants?

The ethical and political difficulties deepen when we get to the other kind of geoengineering scheme reviewed in the NRC report, «albedo modification» — formerly known as solar radiation management — schemes to reduce the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth's surface.

My own view is that the initiating mechanism is not small shifts in insolation hitting some kind of trigger related to snow albedo (the land - sea snow - ice area is relatively small compared to potential shifts in cloud amount and spatial distribution)-- rather it is shifts in global winds which likely relate to shifts in the jetstream (linked to...?

In the paper I argue that the record of this kind of aurora can be considered a proxy for the electric properties of the atmosphere which then influence the cloud cover and the albedo and, consequently, causes similar cycles in the surface temperature.

Judith I spent a large chunk of yesterday trying to find some kind of figure for ice albedo feedback.