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20 reasons why geoengineering may be a bad idea

article by Alan Robock published 23 April 2008 in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

60 Years and Beyond of Reviews of Geophysics

A New International Network for in Situ Soil Moisture Data

article by Wouter Dorigo et al published 26 April 2011 in Eos

A Test for Geoengineering?

scientific article published in Science

A comparison of single column model simulations of summertime midlatitude continental convection

article

A latitudinally dependent volcanic dust veil index, and its effect on climate simulations

A model study of the effect of Pinatubo volcanic aerosols on stratospheric temperatures

A multi-model assessment of regional climate disparities caused by solar geoengineering

article

A multimodel examination of climate extremes in an idealized geoengineering experiment

article

A new Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP) experiment designed for climate and chemistry models

scientific article published in 2015

Albedo enhancement by stratospheric sulfur injections: More research needed

Allergenic pollen season variations in the past two decades under changing climate in the United States

scientific article

An Updated Climate Feedback Diagram

An energetic perspective on hydrological cycle changes in the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project ⬇️

article

An overview of geoengineering of climate using stratospheric sulphate aerosols

scientific article

An overview of the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP) ⬇️

article

Anthropogenic and Natural Radiative Forcing Supplementary Material ⬇️

scientific article

Appreciation of Peer Reviewers for 2017

scholarly article by Fabio Florindo et al published 27 October 2018 in Reviews of Geophysics

Appreciation of peer reviewers for 2015

article published in 2016

Arctic Oscillation response to volcanic eruptions in the IPCC AR4 climate models

article

Arctic cryosphere response in the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project G3 and G4 scenarios

article

Arctic sea ice and atmospheric circulation under the GeoMIP G1 scenario

Asia Treads the Nuclear Path, Unaware That Self-Assured Destruction Would Result from Nuclear War ⬇️

article

Atmospheric science. Whither geoengineering?

scientific article published on 01 May 2008

Atmospheric volcanic loading derived from bipolar ice cores: Accounting for the spatial distribution of volcanic deposition

scholarly article

Author Correction: Tropical explosive volcanic eruptions can trigger El Niño by cooling tropical Africa.

scientific article published on 22 February 2018

Benefits, risks, and costs of stratospheric geoengineering

scholarly article

Black carbon lofts wildfire smoke high into the stratosphere to form a persistent plume

scientific article published on 08 August 2019

CLIMATE AND CLIMATE CHANGE | Nuclear Winter

article

CLIMATE AND CLIMATE CHANGE | Volcanoes

scholarly article published 2015

CULTURE: Bob Dylan and Weather Imagery

article

Can stratospheric geoengineering alleviate global warming-induced changes in deciduous fruit cultivation? The case of Himachal Pradesh (India)

scientific article published in 2020

Capacity Building for the Caribbean Region

Climate effects of high-latitude volcanic eruptions: Role of the time of year

scientific article

Climate model response from the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP)

article

Climatic Impacts of Volcanic Eruptions

Climatic consequences of regional nuclear conflicts

scholarly article published in 2007

Climatic impact of the long-lasting 1783 Laki eruption: Inapplicability of mass-independent sulfur isotopic composition measurements

article

Climatic impact of volcanic emissions

scientific article

Comment on "No consistent ENSO response to volcanic forcing over the last millennium"

scientific article published on 01 September 2020

Comment on “Climate Impact of a Regional Nuclear Weapon Exchange: An Improved Assessment Based on Detailed Source Calculations” by Reisner et al.

scientific article published in 2019

Comparing different generations of idealized solar geoengineering simulations in the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP)

scientific article published in 2021

Comparison of Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover Data Sets

Cooling following large volcanic eruptions corrected for the effect of diffuse radiation on tree rings

scholarly article

Cooperation on GPS Meteorology between the United States and Cuba

scholarly article by Richard Anthes published in July 2015

Correction [to “Standardizing experiments in geoengineering”]

Correction to “Sulfuric acid deposition from stratospheric geoengineering with sulfate aerosols”

scientific article

Correction to “Volcanic eruptions and climate”

scholarly article published in Reviews of Geophysics

Correction to “Volcanic forcing of climate over the past 1500 years: An improved ice core–based index for climate models”

scientific article

Corrigendum to “Temperature and precipitation history of the Arctic” [Quat. Sci. Rev. 29 (2010) 1679–1715]

scholarly article published in Quaternary Science Reviews

Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 5 (CMIP5) simulations of climate following volcanic eruptions

article

Decadal reduction of Chinese agriculture after a regional nuclear war

article

Did Smoke From City Fires in World War II Cause Global Cooling?

scholarly article by Alan Robock & Brian Zambri published 26 September 2018 in Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Did the Toba volcanic eruption of ∼74 ka B.P. produce widespread glaciation?

scientific article (publication date: 27 May 2009)

Effects of concurrent snow and cloud cover on planetary albedo

article published in 1985

Effects of forcing differences and initial conditions on inter-model agreement in the VolMIP volc-pinatubo-full experiment

scientific article published in 2022

Effects of pre-industrial human activities on climate.

scientific article published in September 1994

Emissions from volcanoes

Environmental consequences of nuclear war

Erratum to: Resilience to global food supply catastrophes

scholarly article

Evaluation of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment soil moisture simulations for the second half of the twentieth century

scholarly article by Haibin Li et al published 22 March 2007 in Journal of Geophysical Research

Evaluation of Reanalysis Soil Moisture Simulations Using Updated Chinese Soil Moisture Observations

article

Evaluation of SMOS retrievals of soil moisture over the central United States with currently available in situ observations

scholarly article by Thomas W. Collow et al published 9 May 2012 in Journal of Geophysical Research

Evaluation of the AMIP soil moisture simulations

scientific article

Evidence of enhanced precipitation due to irrigation over the Great Plains of the United States

article

External Funding of Atmospheric Science Programs in the United States: More Than the Cost of a New Professor

scholarly article by Alan Robock published March 2005 in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Forcings and feedbacks in the GeoMIP ensemble for a reduction in solar irradiance and increase in CO2

scholarly article

Forty-five years of observed soil moisture in the Ukraine: No summer desiccation (yet)

article

Future Directions in Simulating Solar Geoengineering

GCM evaluation of a mechanism for El Niño triggering by the El Chichón ash cloud

scholarly article

Geoengineering by stratospheric SO 2 injection: results from the Met Office HadGEM2 climate model and comparison with the Goddard Institute for Space Studies ModelE

scholarly article

Geoscientists Can Help Reduce the Threat of Nuclear Weapons

2021 article by Robock and Prager

Global cooling after the eruption of Mount Pinatubo: a test of climate feedback by water vapor

scientific article published on April 2002

Global food insecurity and famine from reduced crop, marine fishery and livestock production due to climate disruption from nuclear war soot injection ⬇️

2022 research report by Xia, Robock, et al.

Global warming in the context of the Little Ice Age

article

HYDROLOGY, FLOODS AND DROUGHTS | Soil Moisture

scholarly article published 2015

High-latitude eruptions cast shadow over the African monsoon and the flow of the Nile

article

How well does the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting Interim Reanalysis represent the surface air temperature in Cuban weather stations?

scholarly article by Albeht Rodríguez-Vega et al published 12 September 2017 in International Journal of Climatology

Ice and Snow Feedbacks and the Latitudinal and Seasonal Distribution of Climate Sensitivity

Impact of Volcanic Eruptions on Decadal to Centennial Fluctuations of Arctic Sea Ice Extent during the Last Millennium and on Initiation of the Little Ice Age

article by Joanna Slawinska & Alan Robock published March 2018 in Journal of Climate

Impacts of Stratospheric Sulfate Geoengineering on Tropospheric Ozone

article published in 2017

Impacts of a nuclear war in South Asia on rice production in Mainland China

article

Impacts of a nuclear war in South Asia on soybean and maize production in the Midwest United States

article

Impacts of land cover data quality on regional climate simulations

scholarly article by Elif Sertel et al published 30 October 2009 in International Journal of Climatology

Impacts of stratospheric sulfate geoengineering on tropospheric ozone

scholarly article

Incorporating water table dynamics in climate modeling: 1. Water table observations and equilibrium water table simulations

article

Incorporating water table dynamics in climate modeling: 2. Formulation, validation, and soil moisture simulation

article

Incorporating water table dynamics in climate modeling: 3. Simulated groundwater influence on coupled land-atmosphere variability

article

Influences of soil moisture and vegetation on convective precipitation forecasts over the United States Great Plains

article published in 2014

Introduction: Mount Pinatubo as a test of climate feedback mechanisms

scientific article

Is Geoengineering Research Ethical?

Key factors governing uncertainty in the response to sunshade geoengineering from a comparison of the GeoMIP ensemble and a perturbed parameter ensemble

article

Key results and implications from phase 1(c) of the Project for Intercomparison of Land-surface Parametrization Schemes

LALINET: The First Latin American–Born Regional Atmospheric Observational Network

scientific article, 2017

Large Volcanic Aerosol Load in the Stratosphere Linked to Asian Monsoon Transport ⬇️

scientific article published on July 6, 2012

Large-scale water cycle perturbation due to irrigation pumping in the US High Plains: A synthesis of observed streamflow changes

Local Nuclear War, Global Suffering

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

Making Your Own Luck: A Meaningful Career From Being Open to Opportunities

scientific article published in 2020

Marine wild-capture fisheries after nuclear war

scientific article published on 09 November 2020

Modeling the 1783–1784 Laki Eruption in Iceland, Part I: Aerosol Evolution and Global Stratospheric Circulation Impacts

scholarly article by Brian Zambri et al published 13 May 2019 in Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Modeling the 1783–1784 Laki Eruption in Iceland, Part II: Climate Impacts

scholarly article by Brian Zambri et al published 13 May 2019 in Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Modeling the distribution of the volcanic aerosol cloud from the 1783–1784 Laki eruption

article

Modelled and observed sea surface temperature trends for the Caribbean and Antilles

scholarly article by Juan Carlos Antuña-Marrero et al published 27 August 2015 in International Journal of Climatology

Modelling land cover change impact on the summer climate of the Marmara Region, Turkey

article

Negligible climatic effects from the 2008 Okmok and Kasatochi volcanic eruptions

scholarly article

New START, Eyjafjallajökull, and Nuclear Winter

article

North Atlantic Oscillation response in GeoMIP experiments G6solar and G6sulfur: why detailed modelling is needed for understanding regional implications of solar radiation management

scientific article published in 2021

Northern Hemisphere Temperature Variability for the Past Three Centuries: Tree-Ring and Model Estimates

Northern Hemisphere winter warming and summer monsoon reduction after volcanic eruptions over the last millennium

article

Northern Hemispheric cryosphere response to volcanic eruptions in the Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project 3 last millennium simulations

article

Nuclear Winter Responses to Nuclear War Between the United States and Russia in the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model Version 4 and the Goddard Institute for Space Studies ModelE ⬇️

2019 research report by Coup et al.

Nuclear power challenges and alternatives

scholarly article by Alan Robock published September 2007 in Physics Today

Nuclear power’s costs and perils

Nuclear war. Consequences of regional-scale nuclear conflicts

scientific article

Nuclear winter

scholarly article by Alan Robock published 16 April 2010 in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: WIREs Climate Change

Nuclear winter is a real and present danger ⬇️

scientific article published on May 19, 2011

Nuclear winter revisited with a modern climate model and current nuclear arsenals: Still catastrophic consequences ⬇️

article

Ocean response to volcanic eruptions in Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 5 simulations

article

On the eddy structure of hurricanes

scholarly article by Alan Robock published July 1975 in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

On the review process: Editors speak

article

PALEOCLIMATE | Paleoclimate History of the Arctic

Parentheses Are (Are Not) for References and Clarification (Saving Space)

Partnering with Cuba: weather extremes

scientific article published in Science

Pinatubo eruption winter climate effects: model versus observations

article

Pinatubo eruption. The climatic aftermath

scientific article published on 01 February 2002

Planet earth in jeopardy: Environmental consequences of nuclear war, L. Dotto, Wiley (Chichester), 1986. No. of pages: 134. Price; £4.95

Potential ecological impacts of climate intervention by reflecting sunlight to cool Earth

scientific article published on 05 April 2021

Potential effects of global climatic change on the phenology and yield of maize in venezuela

Potentially dangerous consequences for biodiversity of solar geoengineering implementation and termination

scientific article published on 22 January 2018

Preface

scientific article published in 2003

Progress in climate model simulations of geoengineering

Publisher Correction: Tropical explosive volcanic eruptions can trigger El Niño by cooling tropical Africa

scientific article

Radiative impact of the Mount Pinatubo volcanic eruption: Lower stratospheric response

article

Rapidly expanding nuclear arsenals in Pakistan and India portend regional and global catastrophe

scientific article published on 02 October 2019

Regional Climate Simulations over North America: Interaction of Local Processes with Improved Large-Scale Flow

Regional climate responses to geoengineering with tropical and Arctic SO2 injections

article

Relationships between tropospheric water vapor and surface temperature as observed by radiosondes

article

Reply to comment by Cole-Dai et al. on “Climatic impact of the long-lasting Laki eruption: Inapplicability of mass-independent sulfur isotope composition measurements” ⬇️

article

Resilience to global food supply catastrophes

Robust Results From Climate Model Simulations of Geoengineering

article

Robust winter warming over Eurasia under stratospheric sulfate geoengineering – the role of stratospheric dynamics

scientific article published in 2021

Sea spray geoengineering experiments in the geoengineering model intercomparison project (GeoMIP): Experimental design and preliminary results ⬇️

article

Self-assured destruction: The climate impacts of nuclear war

Simulation and observations of stratospheric aerosols from the 2009 Sarychev volcanic eruption

scientific article published in 2011

Snow and ice feedbacks prolong effects of nuclear winter

scientific article published in Nature

Soil moisture simulations in revised AMIP models

scientific article published in 2000

Solar dimming and CO2effects on soil moisture trends

scholarly article

Solar geoengineering could redistribute malaria risk in developing countries

scientific article published in 2022

Solar radiation management impacts on agriculture in China: A case study in the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP)

article

Southern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation effects of the 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption

scholarly article

Spatial Variation of Soil Moisture in China: Geostatistical Characterization

article

Spectral nudging to eliminate the effects of domain position and geometry in regional climate model simulations

article

Standardizing experiments in geoengineering

Steady decline of east Asian monsoon winds, 1969–2000: Evidence from direct ground measurements of wind speed

article

Stratospheric aerosol geoengineering

article published in 2015

Stratospheric geoengineering impacts on El Niño/Southern Oscillation

scholarly article

Stratospheric geoengineering impacts on El Niño/Southern Oscillation

Stratospheric ozone response to sulfate geoengineering: Results from the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP)

article

Stratospheric sulfate geoengineering could enhance the terrestrial photosynthesis rate ⬇️

scholarly article

Studying geoengineering with natural and anthropogenic analogs

Sulfuric acid deposition from stratospheric geoengineering with sulfate aerosols

scientific article published in 2009

Tambora 1815 as a test case for high impact volcanic eruptions: Earth system effects

scientific article published on 02 June 2016

Temperature and precipitation history of the Arctic

scholarly article

Temperature trends at the surface and in the troposphere

scientific article

Thank You to Our 2018 Peer Reviewers

article by Fabio Florindo et al published March 2019 in Reviews of Geophysics

The "little ice age": northern hemisphere average observations and model calculations.

scientific article

The 1452 or 1453 A.D. Kuwae eruption signal derived from multiple ice core records: Greatest volcanic sulfate event of the past 700 years

scientific article

The G4Foam Experiment: Global Climate Impacts of Regional Ocean Albedo Modification

The G4Foam Experiment: global climate impacts of regional ocean albedo modification

scholarly article

The Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP)

article

The Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (GeoMIP6): simulation design and preliminary results

article

The Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (GeoMIP6): simulation design and preliminary results

The International Soil Moisture Network: a data hosting facility for global in situ soil moisture measurements

article by W. A. Dorigo et al published 30 May 2011 in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

The International Soil Moisture Network: a data hosting facility for global in situ soil moisture measurements

The Latest on Volcanic Eruptions and Climate

article

The Model Intercomparison Project on the climatic response to Volcanic forcing (VolMIP): Experimental design and forcing input data

article

The Model Intercomparison Project on the climatic response to Volcanic forcing (VolMIP): experimental design and forcing input data for CMIP6 ⬇️

article

The Mount St. Helens volcanic eruption of 18 May 1980: minimal climatic effect

scientific article

The Russian Surface Temperature Data Set

The Short-Term Influence of the Mount St. Helens Volcanic Eruption on Surface Temperature in the Northwest United States

The Volcanic Contribution to Climate Change of the Past 100 Years

scholarly article published 1991

The Volcanic Signal in Surface Temperature Observations

article by Alan Robock & Jianping Mao published May 1995 in Journal of Climate

The climate effects of increasing ocean albedo: An idealized representation of solar geoengineering

The climate effects of increasing ocean albedo: an idealized representation of solar geoengineering

scholarly article

The contribution of Hubert H. Lamb to the study of volcanic effects on climate

The hydrological impact of geoengineering in the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP)

article

The impact of abrupt suspension of solar radiation management (termination effect) in experiment G2 of the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP)

article

Tropical explosive volcanic eruptions can trigger El Niño by cooling tropical Africa

scientific article published on 3 October 2017

Use of general circulation model output in the creation of climate change scenarios for impact analysis

article

Volcanic climate impacts can act as ultimate and proximate causes of Chinese dynastic collapse

scholarly article

Volcanic effects on climate: recent advances and future avenues

scientific article published in 2022

Volcanic eruptions and climate

scientific article

Volcanic forcing of climate over the past 1500 years: An improved ice core-based index for climate models

article

Volcanism and the atmosphere

Volcanism, the atmosphere and climate through time

Volcanoes and Climate

Why and How to Write a High-Impact Review Paper: Lessons From Eight Years of Editorial Board Service to Reviews of Geophysics

article

Will Geoengineering With Solar Radiation Management Ever Be Used?

Winter warming and summer monsoon reduction after volcanic eruptions in Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 5 (CMIP5) simulations

article

Winter warming from large volcanic eruptions

article

Working Group 2: A Critical Appraisal of Model Simulations

article

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