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Robock, Alan, 2014: Stratospheric aerosol geoengineering, Issues Env. Sci. Tech. (special issue “Geoengineering of the Climate System”), 38, 162-185. PDF file
Robock, Alan, 2014: A case against climate engineering, Huffington Post, July 5, 2014.
Huneeus, Nicolas, Olivier Boucher, Kari Alterskjær, Jason N. S. Cole, Charles L. Curry, Duoying Ji, Andy Jones, Ben Kravitz, Jón Egill Kristjánsson, John C. Moore, Helene Muri, Ulrike Niemeier, Phil Rasch, Alan Robock, Balwinder Singh, Hauke Schmidt, Michael Schulz, Simone Tilmes, Shingo Watanabe, and Jin-Ho Yoon, 2014: Forcings and feedbacks in the GeoMIP ensemble for a reduction in solar irradiance and increase in CO2. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 119, 5226–5239 doi: 10.1002/2013JD021110. PDF file
Pitari, Giovanni, Valentina Aquila, Ben Kravitz, Alan Robock, Shingo Watanabe, Irene Cionni, Natalia De Luca, Glauco Di Genova, Eva Mancini, and Simone Tilmes, 2014: Stratospheric ozone response to sulfate geoengineering: Results from the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP). J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 119, 2629-2653, doi:10.1002/2013JD020566. PDF file
Curry, Charles L., Jana Sillmann, David Bronaugh, Kari Alterskjær, Jason N. S. Cole, Duoying Ji, Ben Kravitz, Jón Egill Kristjánsson, John C. Moore, Helene Muri, Ulrike Niemeier, Alan Robock, Simone Tilmes, and Shuting Yang, 2014: A multi-model examination of climate extremes in an idealized geoengineering experiment. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 119, 3900-3923, doi:10.1002/2013JD020648. PDF file
Berdahl, Mira, Alan Robock, Duoying Ji, John C. Moore, Andy Jones, Ben Kravitz, and Shingo Watanabe, 2014: Arctic cryosphere response in the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP) G3 and G4 scenarios. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 119, 1308-1321, doi:10.1002/2013JD020627. PDF file
Moore, John C., Annette Rinke, Xiaoyong Yu, Duoying Ji, Xuefeng Cui, Yan Li, Kari Alterskjær, Jón Egill Kristjánsson, Helene Muri, Olivier Boucher, Nicolas Huneeus, Ben Kravitz, Alan Robock, Ulrike Niemeier, Michael Schulz, Simone Tilmes, Shingo Watanabe, and Shuting Wang, 2014: Arctic sea ice and atmospheric circulation under the GeoMIP G1 scenario. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 119, 567-583, doi:10.1002/ 2013JD021060. PDF file
Irvine, Peter J., Olivier Boucher, Ben Kravitz, Kari Alterskjær, Jason N. S. Cole, Duoying Ji, Andy Jones, Daniel J. Lunt, John C. Moore, Helene Muri, Ulrike Niemeier, Alan Robock, Balwinder Singh, Simone Tilmes, Shingo Watanabe, Shuting Yang, and Jin-Ho Yoon, 2014: Key factors governing uncertainty in the response to sunshade geoengineering from a comparison of the GeoMIP ensemble and a perturbed parameter ensemble. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 119, 7946-7962, doi:10.1002/2013JD020716. PDF file
Xia, Lili, Alan Robock, Jason N. S. Cole, D. Ji, John C. Moore, Andy Jones, Ben Kravitz, Helene Muri, Ulrike Niemeier, B. Singh, Simone Tilmes, and Shingo Watanabe, 2014: Solar radiation management impacts on agriculture in China: A case study in the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP). J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 119, 8695-8711, doi:10.1002/2013JD020630. PDF file
Kravitz, Ben, Douglas G. MacMartin, Alan Robock, Philip J. Rasch, Katharine L. Ricke, Jason N. S. Cole, Charles L. Curry, Peter J. Irvine, Duoying Ji, David Keith, Jón Egill Kristjánsson, John C. Moore, Helene Muri, Balwinder Singh, Simone Tilmes, Shingo Watanabe, Shuting Yang, and Jin-Ho Yoon, 2014: A multi-model assessment of regional climate disparities caused by solar geoengineering. Env. Res. Lett., 9, 074013. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/7/074013. PDF file Supplemental Online Material PDF file
Kravitz, Ben, Alan Robock, and Olivier Boucher, 2014: Future directions in simulating solar geoengineering; Fourth GeoMIP Workshop; Paris, France, 24–25 April 2014. Eos, 95 (31), 280, doi:10.1002/ 2014EO310010. PDF file
Tilmes, S., M. J. Mills, U. Niemeier, H. Schmidt, A. Robock, B. Kravitz, J.-F. Lamarque, G. Pitari, and J. M. English, 2015: A new Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP) experiment designed for climate and chemistry models. Geosci. Model Dev., 8, 43-49, doi:10.5194/gmd-8-43-2015. PDF file
Robock, Alan, 2015: Cloud control: Climatologist Alan Robock on the effects of geoengineering and nuclear war. Bull. Atomic Sci., doi:10.1177/0096340215581353. PDF file
Robock, Alan, 2015: The CIA asked me about controlling the climate – this is why we should worry, The Guardian, February 17, 2015.
Gabriel, Corey J., and Alan Robock, 2015: Stratospheric geoengineering impacts on El Niño/Southern Oscillation. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 11,949-11,966, doi:10.5194/acp-15-11949-2015. PDF file
Kravitz, Ben, Alan Robock, Simone Tilmes, Olivier Boucher, Jason M. English, Peter J. Irvine, Andy Jones, Mark G. Lawrence, Michael MacCracken, Helene Muri, John C. Moore, Ulrike Niemeier, Steven J. Phipps, Jana Sillmann, Trude Storelvmo, Hailong Wang, and Shingo Watanabe, 2015: The Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (GeoMIP6): Simulation design and preliminary results. Geosci. Model Dev., 8, 3379–3392, doi:10.5194/gmd-8-3379-2015. PDF file
Xia, Lili, Alan Robock, Simone Tilmes, and Ryan R. Neely III, 2016: Stratospheric sulfate geoengineering could enhance the terrestrial photosynthesis rate. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 1479-1489, doi:10.5194/acp-16-1479-2016. PDF file
Robock, Alan, 2016: Smoke and mirrors are not the solution to global warming. Royal Society of Chemistry Environmental Chemistry Group Bulletin, July 2016, 19-21. PDF file
Robock, Alan, 2016: Albedo enhancement by stratospheric sulfur injection: More research needed. Earth’s Future, 4, doi:10.1002/2016EF000407. PDF file
Gabriel, Corey J., Alan Robock, Lili Xia, Brian Zambri, and Ben Kravitz, 2017: The G4Foam experiment: Global climate impacts of regional ocean albedo modification. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 595-613, doi:10.5194/acp-17-595-2017. PDF file
Kravitz, Ben, Alan Robock, and Jón Egill Kristjánsson, 2017: Understanding How Climate Engineering Can Offset Climate Change; Sixth Meeting of the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP); Oslo, Norway, 21–22 June 2016. Eos, 98, doi:10.1029/2016EO005279. PDF file Web view
Xia, Lili, Peer J. Nowack, Alan Robock, and Simone Tilmes, 2017: Impacts of stratospheric sulfate geoengineering on tropospheric ozone. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 11,913-11,928, doi:10.5194/acp-17-11913-2017. PDF file
Robock, Alan, 2017: Ethics of geoengineering research. in Forum, Issues in Science and Technology, 33 (4), http://issues.org/33-4/forum-35/. (Invited)
Kravitz, Ben, and Alan Robock, 2017: Vetting new models of climate responses to geoengineering: The Seventh Meeting of the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project; Newry, Maine, 26 July 2017, Eos, 98, doi:10.1029/2017EO089383. Click here to read.
Robock, Alan, 2018: Geoengineering could have animals running for their lives, Nature Ecology & Evolution, January 22, 2018. Click here to read.
Trisos, Christopher H., Giuseppe Amatulli, Jessica Gurevitch, Alan Robock, Lili Xia, and Brian Zambri, 2018: Potentially dangerous consequences for biodiversity of solar geoengineering implementation and termination. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2, 475-482, doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0431-0. PDF file
Trisos, Christopher H., Corey Gabriel, Alan Robock, and Lili Xia, 2018: Ecological, agricultural and health impacts of solar geoengineering. Chapter 24 in Resilience: The Science of Adaptation to Climate Change, Keith Alverson and Zinta Zommers, editors, (Elsevier, Amsterdam), 292-304, ISBN: 978-0-12-811891-7. (Invited paper) PDF file
Kravitz, Ben, Alan Robock, Olivier Boucher, Mark Lawrence, John C. Moore, Ulrike Niemeier, Trude Storelvmo, Simone Tilmes, and Robert Wood, 2018: The Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project - introduction to the second special issue. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 9 pp., doi:10.5194/acp-special_issue376-preface. PDF file
Kravitz, Ben, Alan Robock, and Ulrike Lohman, 2018: Modeling the impacts of geoengineering: Report on the Eighth Annual GeoMIP Meeting, 16-17 April 2018, Zürich, Switzerland, Eos, 99, doi:10.1029/2018EO103333. Click here to read.
Kravitz, Ben, Philip J. Rasch, Hailong Wang, Alan Robock, Corey Gabriel, Olivier Boucher, Jason N. S. Cole, Jim Haywood, Duoying Ji, Andy Jones, Andrew Lenton, John C. Moore, Helene Muri, Ulrike Niemeier, Steven Phipps, Hauke Schmidt, Shingo Watanabe, Shuting Yang, and Jin-Ho Yoon, 2018: The climate effects of increasing ocean albedo: An idealized representation of solar geoengineering. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 13,097-13,113, doi:10.5194/acp-18-13097-2018. PDF file
Robock, Alan, 2018: Geoengineering is not a solution to global warming, Green Knight Newsletter, 9, No. 4, November 2018, pp. 1, 10-15. PDF file
Kravitz, Ben, Alan Robock, and John C. Moore, 2020: New frontiers in geoengineering research. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 101, E87-E89, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0327.1. PDF file
Robock, Alan, 2020: Benefits and risks of stratospheric solar radiation management for climate intervention (geoengineering). The Bridge, 50, 59-67. (invited paper) PDF file [See Table 2 for the latest list of benefits and risks or concerns (28 of them) of stratospheric geoengineering.]
Tilmes, Simone, Douglas G. MacMartin, Jan T. M. Lenaerts, Leo van Kampenhout, Laura Muntjewerf, Lili Xia, Cheryl S. Harrison, Kristen Krumhardt, Michael J. Mills, Ben Kravitz, and Alan Robock, 2020: Reaching 1.5 and 2.0°C global surface temperature targets using stratospheric aerosol geoengineering in CMIP6. Earth System Dynamics, 11, 579-601, doi:10.5194/esd-11-579-2020. PDF file
Kravitz, Ben, Alan Robock, and Douglas G. MacMartin, 2020: The road toward process-level understanding of solar geoengineering through a multi-model intercomparison. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 101(9), E1572-E1575, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0209.1. PDF file
Jones, Andy, Jim M. Haywood, Anthony C. Jones, Simone Tilmes, Ben Kravitz, and Alan Robock, 2021: North Atlantic Oscillation response in GeoMIP experiments G6solar and G6sulfur: Why detailed modelling is needed for understanding regional implications of solar radiation management. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 1287-1304, doi:/10.5194/acp-21-1287-2021. PDF file
Kravitz, Ben, Douglas G. MacMartin, Daniele Visioni, Olivier Boucher, Jason N. S. Cole, Jim Haywood, Andy Jones, Thibaut Lurton, Pierre Nabat, Ulrike Niemeier, Alan Robock, Roland Séférian, and Simone Tilmes, 2021: Comparing different generations of idealized solar geoengineering simulations in the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP). Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 4231-4247, doi:10.5194/acp-21-4231-2021. PDF file
Zarnetske, Phoebe L., Jessica Gurevitch, Janet Franklin, Peter Groffman, Cheryl Harrison, Jessica Hellmann, Forrest M. Hoffman, Shan Kothari, Alan Robock, Simone Tilmes, Daniele Visioni, Jin Wu, Lili Xia, and Cheng-En Yang, 2021: Potential ecological impacts of climate intervention by reflecting sunlight to cool the Earth. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 118 (15), e1921854118, doi:10.1073/pnas.1921854118. PDF file
Banerjee, Antara, Amy H. Butler, Lorenzo M. Polvani, Alan Robock, Isla R. Simpson, and Lantao Sun, 2021: Robust winter warming over Eurasia under stratospheric sulfate geoengineering – the role of stratospheric dynamics. Atm. Chem. Phys., 21, 6985-6997, doi:10.5194/acp-21-6985-2021. PDF file
Visioni, Daniele, and Alan Robock, 2022: Future geoengineering scenarios: Balancing policy relevance and scientific significance, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 103, E817-E820, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0201.1. PDF file
Carlson, Colin J., Rita Colwell, Mohammad Sharif Hossain, Mohammed Mofizur Rahman, Alan Robock, Sadie J. Ryan, Mohammad Shafiul Alam, and Christopher H. Trisos, 2022: Solar geoengineering could redistribute malaria risk in developing countries. Nature Communications, 13, 2150, doi:10.1038/s41467-022-29613-w. PDF file
Visioni, Daniele, Ben Kravitz, Alan Robock, Simone Tilmes, Jim M. Haywood, Olivier Boucher, Mark Lawrence, Peter Irvine, Ulrike Niemeier, Lili Xia, Gabriel Chiodo, Chris Lennard, Shingo Watanabe, John C. Moore, and Helene Muri, 2023: Opinion: The scientific and community-building roles of the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP) - Past, present, and future. Atm. Chem. Phys., 23, 5149-5176, doi:10.5194/acp-23-5149-2023. PDF file
Visioni, Daniele, Alan Robock, Alistair Duffey, and Ilaria Quaglia, 2023: Process-level experiments and policy-relevant scenarios in future GeoMIP iterations. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 104, E501-E503, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0281.1. PDF file
Clark, Brendan, Lili Xia, Alan Robock, Simone Tilmes, Jadwiga H. Richter, Daniele Visioni, and Sam S. Rabin, 2023: The optimal climate intervention scenario for crop production varies by nation. Nature Food, 4, doi:10.1038/s43016-023-00853-3. PDF file
Visioni, Daniele, Alan Robock, Jim Haywood, Matthew Henry, and Alice Wells, 2023: A new era for the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP): Meeting report for the 13th GeoMIP meeting held in Exeter, UK, 3-7 July, 2023. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 104, E1950–E1955, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0232.1. PDF file
Rabin, Sam S., William J. Sacks, Danica L. Lombardozzi, Lili Xia, and Alan Robock, 2023: Observation-based sowing dates and cultivars significantly affect yield and irrigation for some crops in the Community Land Model (CLM5). Geosci. Model Dev., 16, 7253–7273, doi:10.5194/gmd-16-7253-2023. PDF file
Visioni, Daniele, Alan Robock, Jim Haywood, Matthew Henry, Simone Tilmes, Douglas G. MacMartin, Ben Kravitz, Sarah J. Doherty, John Moore, Chris Lennard, Shingo Watanabe, Helene Muri, Ulrike Niemeier, Olivier Boucher, Abu Syed, Temitope S. Egbebiyi, Roland Séférian, and Ilaria Quaglia, 2024: G6-1.5K-SAI: a new Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP) experiment integrating recent advances in solar radiation modification studies. Geosci. Model Dev., 17, 2583-2596, doi:10.5194/gmd-17-2583-2024. PDF file
Prepared by Alan Robock (robock@envsci.rutgers.edu) - May 11 2024