GC21J:
Strategies for Cooling Earth: Solar Geoengineering and Carbon Dioxide Removal II

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Piers Forster, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, Hauke Schmidt, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany and Marcia K McNutt, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Conveners:  Piers Forster, Univ. of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Co-conveners:  Ben Kravitz, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Hauke Schmidt, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany and Marcia K McNutt, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Ben Kravitz, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
 
An Assessment of Radiation Modification from a European Perspective
Jon Egill Kristjansson1, Mark G Lawrence2, Olivier Boucher3, James Matthew Haywood4, Peter J Irvine2, Helene Muri1, Hauke Schmidt5, Michael Schulz6, Naomi Vaughan7, Matthew Watson8, Wanda Born2, Stefan Schaefer2 and Harald Stelzer2, (1)University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, (2)Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany, (3)LMD, Paris Cedex 05, France, (4)University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom, (5)Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, (6)Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Climate and Air Pollution Section, Oslo, Norway, (7)University of East Anglia, Tyndall Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom, (8)University of Bristol, School of Earth Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom
8:15 AM
 
Modeling of Solar Radiation Management: A Comparison of Simulations Using Reduced Solar Constant and Stratospheric Sulphate Aerosols
Govindasamy Bala1, Sirisha Kalidindi1, Angshuman Modak1 and Ken Caldeira2, (1)Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, (2)Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC, United States
8:30 AM
 
Cloud-Resolving Model Simulations of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions Triggered by Strong Aerosol Emissions in the Arctic
Hailong Wang1, Ben Kravitz1, Philip J Rasch1, Hugh Morrison2 and Amy Solomon3, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
8:45 AM
 
Solar geoengineering to limit the rate of temperature change
Douglas G MacMartin, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Ken Caldeira, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC, United States and David Keith, Harvard University, Engineering and Applied Sciences and Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA, United States
9:00 AM
 
Ecological Limits to Terrestrial Biological Carbon Dioxide Removal
Margaret S Torn1,2, Lydia J Smith2, Umakant Mishra3, Daniel Sanchez2 and Jim Williams4, (1)Berkeley Lab/UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States, (4)E3: Energy + Environmental Economics, Berkeley, CA, United States
9:15 AM
 
Direct Air Capture of CO2 - an Overview of Carbon Engineering's Technology and Pilot Plant Development
Geoffrey Holmes and Adrian Corless, Carbon Engineering, Calgary, AB, Canada
9:45 AM
 
Status of Geological Storage of CO2 as Part of Negative Emissions Strategy
Sally M Benson, Stanford University, School of Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States