Marine cloud brightening, also known as marine cloud seeding or marine cloud engineering, may be a way to make stratocumulus clouds over the sea brighter, thus reflecting more sunlight back into space
Ships churning across the Pacific Ocean left this cluster of bright cloud trails lingering in the atmosphere in 2012. The narrow clouds, known as ship tracks, form when water vapor condenses around tiny particles of pollution that ships either emit directly as exhaust or that form as a result of gases within the exhaust.
Solar radiation modification, also called solar geoengineering, is a group of large-scale approaches to reduce global warming by increasing the amount of sunlight that is reflected away from Earth and
Marine cloud brightening
…brightening (MCB), also known as marine cloud seeding or marine cloud engineering, may be a way to make stratocumulus clouds over the sea brighter, thus reflecting more sunlight back into space in order to limit global warming. It is one of two such methods that might feasibly have a substantial climate impact, but is lower in the atmosphere…
Potential complementary responses to climate change: greenhouse gas emissions abatement, carbon dioxide removal, SRM, and adaptation.
Cirrus clouds merging into cirrocumulus clouds
Znamya-2, an orbital mirror experiment conducted by Russia in the 1990s
Projected end-of-century temperature (T) and precipitation (P) changes relative to preindustrial conditions for (a) representative concentration pathway RCP4.5 ("no geo"), and (b) RCP4.5 with SRM ("with geo") to reduce mean global warming to 1.5 °C