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Climate Intervention: Reflecting Sunlight to Cool Earth COMMITTEE ON GEOENGINEERING CLIMATE: TECHNICAL EVALUATION AND DISCUSSION OF IMPACTS MARCIA K. MCNUTT (Chair), Science, Washington, D.C. WALEED ABDALATI, University of Colorado, Boulder KEN CALDEIRA, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, California SCOTT C. DONEY, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts PAUL G. FALKOWSKI, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick STEVE FETTER, University of Maryland, College Park JAMES R. FLEMING, Colby College, Waterville, Maine STEVEN P. HAMBURG, Environmental Defense Fund, Boston, Massachusetts M. GRANGER MORGAN, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania JOYCE E. PENNER, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor RAYMOND T. PIERREHUMBERT, University of Chicago, Illinois PHILIP J. RASCH, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington LYNN M. RUSSELL, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California JOHN T. SNOW, University of Oklahoma, Norman DAVID W. TITLEY, Pennsylvania State University, University Park JENNIFER WILCOX, Stanford University, California NRC Staff: EDWARD DUNLEA, Senior Program Officer CLAUDIA MENGELT, Senior Program Officer KATHERINE THOMAS, Program Officer AMANDA PURCELL, Research Associate SHELLY FREELAND, Senior Program Assistant ROB GREENWAY, Program Associate PREPUBLICATION COPY v Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Climate Intervention: Reflecting Sunlight to Cool Earth BOARD ON ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE A.R. RAVISHANKARA (Chair), Colorado State University, Fort Collins GERALD A. MEEHL (Vice Chair), National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado LANCE F. BOSART, State University of New York, Albany MARK A. CANE, Columbia University, Palisades, New York SHUYI S. CHEN, University of Miami, Florida HEIDI CULLEN, Climate Central, Princeton, New Jersey PAMELA EMCH, Northrup Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, California ARLENE FIORE, Columbia University, Palisades, New York WILLIAM B. GAIL, Global Weather Corporation, Boulder, Colorado LISA GODDARD, Columbia University, Palisades, New York MAURA HAGAN, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado TERRI S. HOGUE, Colorado School of Mines, Golden ANTHONY JANETOS, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, Maryland EVERETTE JOSEPH, SUNY University at Albany, New York RONALD “NICK” KEENER, JR., Duke Energy Corporation, Charlotte, North Carolina JOHN R. NORDGREN, The Kresge Foundation, Troy, Michigan JONATHAN OVERPECK, University of Arizona, Tucson STEPHEN W. PACALA, Princeton University, New Jersey ARISTIDES A.N. PATRINOS, New York University, Brooklyn S.T. RAO, North Carolina State University, Raleigh DAVID A. ROBINSON, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway CLAUDIA TEBALDI, Climate Central, Princeton, New Jersey Ocean Studies Board Liaison DAVID HALPRIN, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California Polar Research Board Liaison JENNIFER FRANCIS, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Marion, Massachusetts NRC Staff AMANDA STAUDT, Director EDWARD DUNLEA, Senior Program Officer LAURIE GELLER, Senior Program Officer KATHERINE THOMAS, Program Officer LAUREN EVERETT, Associate