#  Climate Journal Club: "Geoengineering, the world's largest control problem" 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **December 2, 2014** 

 03:00PM - 04:00PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **HUCE Seminar Room**  



 

 



 

GS Cristi Proistosescu leads this week's ClimaTea seminar on geoengineering. He summarizes the discussion as the following:

Solar Radiation Management/Sunlight Reflection Methods (SRM) is a proposed geoengineering technique that might reduce damage from anthropogenic climate change. However, there is no one optimal method of applying SRM - the degree of compensation will vary, with residual climate changes larger over some regions and time scales than others.  
  
The papers we will be discussing this week treat SRM as a feedback and discuss geoengineering as a control problem. The authors discuss (a) how to properly design an SRM feedback in order to manage significant uncertainty in both radiative forcing and the climate system's response; (b) how to optimize the distribution of radiative effect to minimize regional disparities.

Summary paper :[Geoengineering: the World’s largest control problem](http://keith.seas.harvard.edu/papers/168.MacMartin.ControlProblem.pdf)More Detailed formalism:[Management of trade-offs in geoengineering through optimal choice of non-uniform radiative forcing](http://keith.seas.harvard.edu/papers/158.1MacMartin.etal.ManagingTradeoffsThroughNonRadForc.e.pdf)[Dynamics of the coupled human–climate system resulting from closed-loop control of solar geoengineering](http://keith.seas.harvard.edu/preprints/165.MacMartin.etal.Human-ClimateSystem.p.pdf)Optional:[Solar Geoengineering to limit the rate of temperature change](http://keith.seas.harvard.edu/papers/172.MacMartin.Caldeira.Keith.SolarGeoengineeringtoLimittheRateofTemperatureChange.pdf)

 

 



 

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