Publications by Alan Robock on geoengineering

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  1. Robock, Alan, 2008:  20 reasons why geoengineering may be a bad idea.  Bull. Atomic Scientists, 64, No. 2, 14-18, 59, doi:10.2968/064002006.  PDF file   Roundtable discussion of paper

  2. Robock, Alan, 2008:  Whither geoengineering?  Science, 320, 1166-1167.  PDF file

  3. Robock, Alan, Luke Oman, and Georgiy Stenchikov, 2008:  Regional climate responses to geoengineering with tropical and Arctic SO2 injections.  J. Geophys. Res., 113, D16101, doi:10.1029/2008JD010050.   PDF file

  4. Rasch, Philip J., Simone Tilmes, Richard P. Turco, Alan Robock, Luke Oman, Chih-Chieh (Jack) Chen, Georgiy L. Stenchikov, and Rolando R. Garcia, 2008:  An overview of geoengineering of climate using stratospheric sulfate aerosols.  Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. A., 366, 4007-4037, doi:10.1098/rsta.2008.0131.  PDF file

  5. Robock, Alan, 2008:  Geoengineering: It’s not a panacea.  Geotimes, 53, no. 7, 58. Click here for html version.

  6. Kravitz, Ben, Alan Robock, Luke Oman, Georgiy Stenchikov, and Allison B. Marquardt, 2009: Sulfuric acid deposition from stratospheric geoengineering with sulfate aerosols.  J. Geophys. Res., 114, D14109, doi:10.1029/2009JD011918.  PDF file   Correction

  7. Robock, Alan, Allison B. Marquardt, Ben Kravitz, and Georgiy Stenchikov, 2009:  The benefits, risks, and costs of stratospheric geoengineering.  Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L19703, doi:10.1029/2009GL039209.    PDF file

  8. Robock, Alan, 2009:  A biased economic analysis of geoengineering.  RealClimate, http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/08/a-biased-economic-analysis-of-geoengineering/

     

  9. Robock, Alan, 2009:  Testimony before the House Committee on Science and Technology Hearing, “Geoengineering:  Assessing the Implications of Large-Scale Climate Intervention,” November 5, 2009, 125 pp.   PDF file of testimony without supplemental material   PDF of complete testimony (22 Mb)  Webcast of testimony

  10. Jones, Andy, Jim Haywood, Olivier Boucher, Ben Kravitz, and Alan Robock, 2010:  Geoengineering by stratospheric SO2 injection: Results from the Met Office HadGEM2 climate model and comparison with the Goddard Institute for Space Studies ModelE.  Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 5999-6006, doi:10.5194/acp-10-5999-2010.  PDF file

  11. Robock, Alan, Martin Bunzl, Ben Kravitz, and Georgiy Stenchikov, 2010:  A test for geoengineering?  Science, 327, 530-531, doi:10.1126/science.1186237.  PDF file   Correction

  12. Kravitz, Ben, Alan Robock, Olivier Boucher, Hauke Schmidt, Karl Taylor, Georgiy Stenchikov, and Michael Schulz, 2011: The Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP). Atmospheric Science Letters, 12, 162-167,  doi:10.1002/asl.316.  PDF file

  13. Robock, Alan, 2011: Forum: Geoengineering Research. Issues Sci. Tech. (Invited paper)  http://www.issues.org/27.2/forum.html

  14. Robock, Alan, 2011: Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble. An editorial comment. Climatic Change, 105, 383-385, doi:10.1007/s10584-010-0017-1.   PDF file

  15. Robock, Alan, Ben Kravitz, and Olivier Boucher, 2011: Standardizing Experiments in Geoengineering; GeoMIP Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering Workshop; New Brunswick, New Jersey, 10-12 February 2011, EOS, 92, 197, doi:10.1029/2011ES003424.    PDF file

  16. Kravitz, Ben, Alan Robock, Drew T. Shindell, and Mark A. Miller, 2012: Sensitivity of stratospheric geoengineering with black carbon to aerosol size and altitude of injection. J. Geophys. Res., 117, D09203, doi:10.1029/2011JD017341.   PDF file

  17. Robock, Alan, 2012: Will geoengineering with solar radiation management ever be used? Ethics, Policy & Environment, 15, 202-205.    PDF file

  18. Kravitz, Ben, Alan Robock, and James Haywood, 2012: Progress in climate model simulations of geoengineering: 2nd GeoMIP Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering Workshop; Exeter, UK, 30-31 March 2012, EOS, 93, 340, doi:10.1029/2012ES003871.   PDF file

  19. Robock, Alan, 2012: Is geoengineering research ethical? Peace and Security, 4, 226-229.    PDF file

  20. Robock, Alan, Douglas G. MacMartin, Riley Duren, and Matthew W. Christensen, 2013: Studying geoengineering with natural and anthropogenic analogs. Climatic Change, published online, doi:10.1007/s10584-013-0777-5.  PDF file

  21. Kravitz, Ben, Ken Caldeira, Olivier Boucher, Alan Robock, Philip J. Rasch, Kari Alterskjćr, Diana Bou Karam, Jason N. S. Cole, Charles L. Curry, James M Haywood, Peter J. Irvine, Duoying Ji, Andy Jones, Jón Egill Kristjánsson, Daniel J. Lunt, John Moore, Ulrike Niemeier, Hauke Schmidt, Michael Schulz, Balwinder Singh, Simone Tilmes, Shingo Watanabe, Shuting Yang, and Jin-Ho Yoon, 2013: Climate model response from the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP).   Submitted to J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2013JD019432.   PDF file  Supplemental Online Material

  22. Tilmes, Simone, John Fasullo, Jean-Francois Lamarque, Daniel R. Marsh, Mike Mills, Kari Alterskjćr, Olivier Boucher, Jason N. S. Cole, Charles L. Curry, J. H. Haywood, Peter J. Irvine, Duoying Ji, Andy Jones, D. B. Karam, Ben Kravitz, Jón E. Kristjánsson, John Moore, Helen O. Muri, Ulrike Niemeier, Philip J. Rasch, Alan Robock, Hauke Schmidt, Micheal Schulz, Yang Shuting, Balwinder Singh, Shingo Watanabe, and J.-H. Yoon, 2013: The Hydrological Impact of Geoengineering in the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP) . Submitted to J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/ 2013JD019852.  PDF file

  23. Jones, Andy, Jim M. Haywood, Kari Alterskjćr, Olivier Boucher, Jason N. S. Cole, Charles L. Curry, Peter J. Irvine, Duoying Ji, Ben Kravitz, Jón Egill Kristjánsson, John C. Moore, Ulrike Niemeier, Alan Robock, Hauke Schmidt, Balwinder Singh, Simone Tilmes, Shingo Watanabe, and Jin-Ho Yoon, 2013: The “termination effect” in experiment G2 of the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP).  Submitted to J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2013JD020112.  PDF file

Prepared by Alan Robock (robock@envsci.rutgers.edu) - Last updated on May 4, 2013