Radiative Forcing & Feedback through the Lens of Solar Geoengineering - Thesis

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https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/handle/10012/20058

Author

Virgin, John

24 October 2023

Cite this version of the work

John Virgin (2023). Radiative Forcing & Feedback through the Lens of Solar Geoengineering. UWSpace. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/20058

Abstract

Global, annual mean surface temperature continues to rise in the wake of the Paris Agreement goal of limiting warming to 2.C and pursing efforts to limit warming to less than 1.5 C. Research paradigms have arisen to analyze projections of future warming, as well as understanding the drivers of anthropogenic climate change since the preindustrial era. One such paradigm is the characterization of anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases as an external radiative forcing on the climate system, as well as feedbacks from the climate response to forcing that augment the rate in which the Earth system reestablishes energy balance. As surface temperatures rise, solar geoengineering has been proposed as a means to deliberately alter Earth’s energy balance and achieve Paris Agreement goals through reducing the amount of incoming shortwave radiation from reaching the surface.more

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