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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Radiative forcing (redirect from Radiative forcing (Calculation and Measurement))
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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Nuclear winter (section Aerosol removal timescale)
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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Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (redirect from Earth Radiation Budget Experiment)
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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Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (section Improved Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder (ISAMS))
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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Outgoing longwave radiation (section Gases)
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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Gennadi Milinevsky (section Atmospheric aerosol)
research towards the stratosphere, tropopause, ozone layer, ozone depletion, aerosols, planetary waves, and sudden stratospheric warmings, alongside exploring...
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Kibō (ISS module) (redirect from Kibo Experiment Module)
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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Cassini–Huygens (redirect from Magnetospheric Imaging Instrument)
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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Methane emissions (redirect from Methane gas emissions)
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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Atmosphere of Mars (section Other trace gases)
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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Firestorm (section Weather and climate effects)
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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