Ulrike Lohmann and Blaž Gasparini, both researchers at the Institute of Atmospheric and Climate Scienceat ETH Zurich inSwitzerland, proposed a counterintuitive plan: Seed the upper atmosphere with tiny particles of desert dust to
reduce cirrus clouds.
A sea surface temperature increase in the tropics would result in
reduced cirrus clouds and thus more infrared radiation leakage from Earth's atmosphere.
For example, theories published in the journal Science in July 2017 by lrike Lohmann and Blaž Gasparini, researchers at the Institute of Atmospheric and Climate Science at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, proposed
reducing cirrus clouds that trap heat.
Ulrike Lohmann and Blaž Gasparini, both researchers at the Institute of Atmospheric and Climate Scienceat ETH Zurich inSwitzerland, proposed a counterintuitive plan: Seed the upper atmosphere with tiny particles of desert dust to
reduce cirrus clouds.
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As a result, the area of
cirrus cloud is
reduced.»
When I, with some colleagues at NASA, attempted to determine how
clouds behave under varying temperatures, we discovered what we called an «Iris Effect,» wherein upper - level
cirrus clouds contracted with increased temperature, providing a very strong negative climate feedback sufficient to greatly
reduce the response to increasing CO2.
At the moment, Lindzen is pursuing a theory that says increased amounts of water vapor — from warming surface temperatures — will
reduce heat - trapping high -
cirrus clouds, which will help balance the planet's temperature.
Rather than magnifying whatever warming takes place, the response of tropical
cirrus cloud cover is to
reduce it.
Another less - explored option for
reducing the effects of sunlight at the Earth's surface would be to «remove»
cirrus clouds from the atmosphere.
When I, with some colleagues at NASA, attempted to determine how
clouds behave under varying temperatures, we discovered what we called an «Iris Effect,» wherein upper - level
cirrus clouds contracted with increased temperature, providing a very strong negative climate feedback sufficient to greatly
reduce the response to increasing CO2.
The most significant changes in the new D - series
cloud datasets are: 1) revised radiance calibrations to remove spurious changes in the long - term record, 2) increased
cirrus detection sensitivity over land, 3) increased low - level
cloud detection sensitivity in polar regions, 4)
reduced biases in
cirrus cloud properties using an ice crystal microphysics model in place of a liquid droplet microphysics model, and 5) increased detail about the variations of
cloud properties.
Specifically, whereas Lindzen's experiment predicts that
cirrus clouds change in extent to
reduce warming at the surface by anywhere from 0.45 to 1.1 degrees, Lin's experiment predicts that changes in the tropical
clouds will help warm the surface by anywhere from 0.05 to 0.1 degree (Lin et al. 2001).