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    Stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) is a proposed method of solar geoengineering (or solar radiation modification) to reduce global warming. This would...
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  • The Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE) is a series of remote sensing satellite instruments used to study the chemical composition of Earth's...
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    tropospheric ozone, because this gas has a cooling effect in the stratosphere, but a warming influence comparable to nitrous oxide and CFCs in the troposphere...
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    energy balance, such as concentrations of greenhouse gases and aerosols, and changes in surface albedo and solar irradiance. In more technical terms, it is...
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    SAGE III on ISS (category Aerosol measurement)
    series of NASA Earth-observing instruments, known as the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment. The first SAGE III instrument was launched on a Russian...
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    that stratospheric smoke aerosols dissipate in a time span under approximately two months. The existence of a tipping point into a new stratospheric condition...
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    Experiment (ERBE), to investigate the Earth's radiation budget. The satellite also carried an instrument that studied stratospheric aerosol and gases...
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  • Atmospheric lidar (category Aerosol measurement)
    instruments have been used to study, among other, atmospheric gases, aerosols, clouds, and temperature. The basic concepts to study the atmosphere using...
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  • Water vapor (redirect from Water (gas))
    water vapour in the stratosphere, and adds about 15% to methane's global warming effect. In the absence of other greenhouse gases, Earth's water vapor...
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    extensive observations of volcanic aerosols and polar stratospheric clouds in the middle atmosphere. The instrument operated from September 1991–July 1992...
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    Explorer 60, also called SAGE (Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment) and was the second of the Applications Explorer Missions (AEM), AEM-B (Applications...
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    airborne, and satellite-based measurements. Some ground-based methods provide the possibility to retrieve tropospheric and stratospheric trace gas profiles...
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    In an oil and gas production, flash-gas is a spontaneous vapor that is produced from the heating or depressurization of the extracted oil mixture during...
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    The Global Energy and Water Exchanges Project (abbreviated GEWEX, formerly named the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment from 1990 to 2012) is an...
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    wavelengths of radiation that the gas can absorb.[citation needed] The OLR balance is affected by clouds, dust, and aerosols in the atmosphere. Clouds tend...
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    research towards the stratosphere, tropopause, ozone layer, ozone depletion, aerosols, planetary waves, and sudden stratospheric warmings, alongside exploring...
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    Detection Instrument from NRL, Variable Voltage Ion Protection Experiment from NRL, ECLIPSE (Experiment for Characterizing the Lower Ionosphere and Production...
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    SBUV/2 (category Spacecraft instruments)
    Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography (SCIAMACHY) Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE) Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) "Solar Backscatter...
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    distribution, aerosol particle content and temperatures of their atmospheres. Unlike other types of spectrometer, this sensitive instrument could take both...
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    Forrest Mims (category Discovery Institute fellows and advisors)
    UV-B, Diffuse/Total Solar Irradiance and Sky Polarization Through Forest Fire Smoke and Stratospheric Aerosols During TOMS Overpasses, final report for...
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    approximately 350 to 1060 nm. Sulfate aerosol observations from SAGE and HALOE. The SAGE II (Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment II) sensor was launched into...
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  • monoxide, aerosol, and ozone concentrations in earth's troposphere at resolutions of several kilometers. In 2022, a study using data from the instrument monitoring...
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    particles or liquid droplets in air or another gas. Examples of natural aerosols include mist, clouds, fog, and dust. ageostrophy air current Any concentrated...
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    agents" (solar variations and volcanic emissions) as well as "anthropogenic forcing" (greenhouse gases and sulphate aerosols). They found that "solar effects...
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    persistent stratosphere due to the lack of shortwave-absorbing species in its middle atmosphere (e.g. stratospheric ozone in Earth's atmosphere and organic...
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    research unfolds. First, puzzling stratospheric aerosol-layer observations—and other layers reported as volcanic aerosol can now be explained in terms of...
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    Earth's energy budget (category Climate variability and change)
    compounds into the upper atmosphere. High concentrations of stratospheric sulfur aerosols may persist for up to a few years, yielding a negative forcing...
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  • missions and scientific instruments in Earth orbit designed for long-term global observations of the land surface, biosphere, atmosphere, and oceans. Since...
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    between LAGEOS and ETALON. Meteor-3M No.1 included the SAGE III (Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment) payload and other instruments designed to measure...
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    James Lovelock (category British scientific instrument makers)
    chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and their role in stratospheric ozone depletion. After studying the operation of the Earth's sulphur cycle, Lovelock and his colleagues...
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