How well could existing sensors detect the deployment of a solar radiation management (SRM) geoengineering effort?

Hurd, Alan J.¹ 

[1]Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

关键词: geoengineering;    solar radiation management;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1253481
RP-ID  :  LA-UR--16-23294
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1253481

学科分类：工程和技术（综合）

美国|英语

来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

While the stated reason for asking this question is ???to understand better our ability to warn policy makers in the unlikely event of an unanticipated SRM geoengineering deployment or large-scale field experiment???, my colleagues and I felt that motives would be important context because the scale of any meaningful SRM deployment would be so large that covert deployment seems impossible. However, several motives emerged that suggest a less-than-global effort might be important.