Marine Cloud Brightening
- Australia's Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program is investigating cloud brightening to reduce coral bleaching in the Great Barrier Reef.
- British cloud physicist John Latham proposed cloud brightening in 1990 to counteract global warming by brightening clouds over susceptible ocean regions.
- The technology involves spraying microscopic seawater droplets into the air, mimicking sea salt aerosol generation by wind and waves.
- Sea salt enhances cloud brightness and provides additional shade by scattering light.
- Unintentional aerosol releases from human activities currently offset around 30% of the warming effect from greenhouse ....
Do You Want to Read More?
Subscribe Now
To get access to detailed content
Already a Member? Login here
Take Annual Subscription and get the following Advantage
The annual members of the Civil Services Chronicle can read the monthly content of the magazine as well as the Chronicle magazine archives.
Readers can study all the material since 2018 of the Civil Services Chronicle monthly issue in the form of Chronicle magazine archives.
News Snippets
- 1 India-Bhutan Hold Talks on Boundary and Cooperation
- 2 New Species of Congrid Eel Discovered
- 3 Delhi Becomes the 28th Legislature to Join NeVA
- 4 U.S. Withdraws from U.N. Climate Damage Fund Board
- 5 India and Vietnam Hold Fourth Policy Planning Dialogue
- 6 US Targets India’s High Tariffs
- 7 India and Armenia Sign MoU on Medical Product Regulation
- 8 Poland & Baltic States to Withdraw from Ottawa Convention
- 9 India and Mongolia Strengthen Strategic Partnership
- 10 New Freshwater Algae Species Discovered in Western Ghats
