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Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by Robert G. Watts
March 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
520 pages
18h 5m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
443Climate Engineering: Impact Reducer or Suffering Inducer?
at the surface, the hydrological cycle would be less likely to be adversely
impacted. A comprehensive comparison to other approaches has not yet,
however, been conducted.
12.4.5 Proposed Approaches for Increasing the
Reflectivity of the Surface
Proposals to increase the surface albedo as a means to reduce the amount
of absorbed solar radiation go back to the mid-twentieth century (e.g., PSAC
1965), but most approaches seem to have a very limited potential. Roughly
50% of incoming surface radiation makes it through the clouds, ozone, and
water vapor to be absorbed at the surface, with an additional 5% being
reected from the surface back out to space as a result of a surface albed ...
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