Solar Geoengineering Modeling and Applications for Mitigating Global Warming: Assessing Key Parameters and the Urban Heat Island Influence

In this paper, solar geoengineering modeling is presented with a goal to simplify reverse forcing assessments and the capability to apply it to a wide variety of applications. Results find improvements on sun-shade space mirror and desert surface treatment estimates, stratosphere sun-dimming methods, and the Urban Heat Islands (UHIs) influence. A heat amplification parameter is added to the model allowing it to be applied to UHI estimates. UHI amplification effects are due to the large solar area of buildings, reduction of wind cooling, solar canyons, and so forth. The UHI reverse forcing requirements are assessed with amplification estimates of 3.1 and 5.2, yielding 7.6% to 12.7% of gross global warming could be due to the urbanization effect, respectively. The gross warming 7.6% estimate, accurately compares to the author's prior study, and the 12.7% represents very recent results by other authors from new measurement methods. Key issues are pointed out that without including a heat amplification estimate and other modeling parameters, the UHI intensity, that likely dominates the urbanization warming effect could be severely underestimated, yielding urbanization estimates possibly as low as 2.4%. It is important to identify possible reasons where underestimates may occur from a modeling perspective to help understand controversies that may be occurring. The new model helps to clarify such parameters, allows for a significant reduction in complexity and calibration, and is shown to be helpful for numerous solar geoengineering applications including the serious need to reduce the UHI effect worldwide. Solar geoengineering solutions will require a lot of creativity, in addition to modeling, suggestions are provided for drought relief ideas and Paris Accord goals required for any successful urban solar geoengineering coordinated effort.

Introduction

A versatile new solar geoengineering model is developed for simplified and improved reverse forcing estimates to mitigate global warming in the area of sun-shade space mirrors, stratosphere sun-dimming, desert surface treatment, and the Urban Heat Islands (UHIs) influence. The model is unique in simplicity and its capability to apply it to these numerous key geoengineering areas. Assessing model parameters is important for accuracy. In this case, global mean earth energy budget values are used, drawn from the author's recent work in this area (Feinberg, 2021b). Results can also be calibrated to measurements when applicable (see section Results).

Expansion of cities is increasing rapidly where 55% of the world's population live and this is expected to grow to near 70% by 2050 (Worldbank, 2020). With this growth, the UHI influence, which is thought to dominate the urbanization effect on global warming, is expected to intensify (Huang et al., 2019; Yang et al., 2019). Urbanization leads to the expansion of built-up areas and increases the number of darker surfaces such as pavements and black rooftops that absorbs more radiation and intensifies UHIs and generally leads to warming the climate (He et al., 2007; Chun and Guldmann, 2014; AzariJafari et al., 2020; Xu et al., 2020). Different types of land-cover/land-use (LCLU) associated with urban expansion can influence the land-surface air temperature (LST) pattern and the magnitude of the UHI effect (He et al., 2007; Tran et al., 2017). Zhang et al. (2021) found significant differences in the magnitudes of the urbanization effects on the LST in different regions, “The urbanization effect on the trends of annual mean and extreme temperature indices series in East Asia is generally the strongest, which is consistent with the rapid urbanization process in the region over the past decades, but it is generally small in Europe during the recent decades.” They also noted a significant urbanization LST contributing trend in North America. The small Europe urbanization effect on the LST trend that they observed in the past decades they suggested may be due to the stagnant growth of UHIs. Such observations support that UHI growth over the past decades likely dominates the urbanization influence on global mean LST trends due to their significant intense heat (Tran et al., 2017). In this paper, this is often referred to as heat pollution (Feinberg, 2021a). Heat pollution worldwide is currently unregulated and not included in the Paris Accord mitigation goals. This is possibly the result of numerous different estimates for the UHI and LCLU influences on the global mean LST trend. Several authors have reported little contributions (Hansen et al., 1999, 2010; Parker, 2006; Jacobson and Hoeve, 2012; Hausfather et al., 2013). The IPCC in AR5 (Hartmann et al., 2013) stated that “…it is unlikely that any uncorrected urban heat-island effects and LCLU change effects have raised the estimated centennial globally averaged land-surface air temperature trends by more than 10% of the reported trend.” However, Zhou et al. (2015) warns that “ignoring the footprint (FP) may underestimate the UHI intensity in most cases.” The footprint was not included in IPCC discussions. The FP is defined as the continuous extent emanating outward from urban centers to rural areas that have an evident UHI effect. Its assessment is important. It helps in identifying possible UHI heat pollution amplification estimates that are needed in modeling and assessing the FP environment. An early study by Zhang et al. (2004) in Eastern N. America found the ecological FP of 2.4, but the study was limited. As well, recent evidence has found a significant impact on a decrease in the vegetation growing season occurring near the UHI FP (Kabano et al., 2021). FP estimates improved over time and an average footprint of 3.1 was detailed by Zhou et al. (2015) based on 32 Chinese cities using MODIS datasets from 2003–2012. Yang et al. (2019) in a temporal study from 2003 to 2016 on 302 cities in China showed the day-night footprints rapidly growing at an alarming rate of about 4.4% per year. This is an indication of a rapid increase in heat pollution in China and may also be occurring worldwide so that the UHI global warming influence may also be increasing. This is only one important finding that helps show the serious need for solar geoengineering in cities (see section Discussion).

In the past, there have been a wide variety of estimates for UHI contributions to climate change assessed with measurements. Part of the issue in urbanization global warming assessment is ground-station measurement contamination. Despite this complication, many authors have shown that urbanization effects do significantly influence global mean LST warming trends (Zhao, 1991; Kalnay and Cai, 2003; McKitrick and Michaels, 2004, 2007; Feddema et al., 2005; De Laat and Maurellis, 2006; Ren et al., 2007, 2008; Jones et al., 2008; Schmidt, 2009; Stone, 2009; Yang et al., 2011; Zhang et al., 2013, 2021; Zhao et al., 2013; Huang and Lu, 2015; Sun et al., 2016; Huang et al., 2019).

According to Ren and Zhou (2014) and others (Hansen et al., 2001; Pielke et al., 2007; Ren et al., 2008), “It is crucial to have a set of representatively rural stations for evaluating the urbanization effect on trends of surface air temperature.” Most studies apply sophisticated methods to avoid using contaminated measurements at rural sites that have UHI interference. Several authors have demonstrated that significant urbanization measurement contamination can influence reported results (Tysa et al., 2019; Wen et al., 2019). Therefore, the key in measurement study accuracy to evaluate the significance of the UHI effects has been how best to identify representative uncontaminated rural stations as reference sites (Ren et al., 2008). Zhang et al. (2021) used the percentage of urban areas within a buffer radius of 1–12 km around the stations to fit the model in their recent study that used machine learning to qualify the measurements of thousands of stations (section Results and Discussion). Their findings are possibly the most careful in rural station selection and likely provide the most accurate and detailed global measurement results. Zhang et al.'s (Zhang's (2021)) results (see Table 2) found, “The magnitude of the urbanization effect on global land averaged annual mean surface air temperature change over 1951–2018 in this study is 0.038^oC decade⁻¹ and the corresponding urbanization contribution is 12.7%, which is larger than the results reported by the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (of 10% in Hartmann et al., 2013).” This 12.7% gross warming equates to a percentage of the forcing (see Table 2 details in Section Assessing the Influence of Urbanization on Global Warming).

In comparison, albedo modeling estimates are unrelated to urban measurement stations so contamination is not a factor in the approach used in this paper. In this paper, the new versatile model is also capable of assessing the urbanization influence on the global mean LST. The author's prior geoengineering modeling results (Feinberg, 2020) agree with the current findings in this paper which is 7.6% gross warming and a percentage of the forcing (see Table 2 details in section Assessing the Influence of Urbanization on Global Warming), for the urbanization global warming influence. However, in solar geoengineering modeling, it is crucial to have an estimate of the UHI heat amplification parameter (Feinberg, 2020). In this work and the author's prior study, a value of 3.1 was justified (section H_T Concept). However, calibrating to Zhang et al.'s result in section Assessing the Influence of Urbanization on Global Warming (which covered about the same period as this study, 1950–2019) yielded a UHI heat amplification parameter H_T of 5.2 (section Assessing the Influence of Urbanization on Global Warming). Therefore, modeling and measurements have different challenges, but together they provide confidence in estimates of a strong UHI and LCLU global warming influence.

Geoengineering solutions are needed. Since CO₂ is estimated to linger in the atmosphere for over 100 years and fossil fuels usage is difficult to impede, it appears unrealistic to reverse global warming by trying to focus solely on reducing fossil fuel usage. Yet, solar geoengineering solutions provide an opportunity to lower global temperature quickly and are needed as warming is escalating faster than expected (Hugonnet et al., 2021). There have been numerous solar geoengineering solutions proposed for reversing global warming (Gaskill and Reese, 2003; Crutzen, 2006; Royal Society, 2009; Levinson and Akbari, 2010; Ferraro et al., 2011, 2015; Dykema et al., 2014; Sánchez and McInnes, 2015; Weisenstein et al., 2015; Cho, 2016; Keith et al., 2016; Dunne, 2018; Field et al., 2018; Reynolds, 2019; Keutsch, 2020; Hoffmann and Feingold, 2021). Creative solar geoengineering may also be able to help drought-related problems and these are discussed in section Solar Geoengineering Ideas for Drought Relief. Also, a major concern is a need for solar geoengineering of urbanization (SGU) and related goals added to the Paris Accord (section Discussion). Without such coordinated goals, significant worldwide improvements likely cannot be accomplished and heat pollution from improper urbanization design will continue to increase.

The new model detailed in this paper, reduces complexities from the author's prior study (Feinberg, 2020), can be used for numerous applications, improves on our understanding of the urbanization effect, significantly improves many reverse forcing estimates (section Results), allows for calibration (see section Assessing the Influence of Urbanization on Global Warming), and accuracy is enhanced with the aid of global mean earth energy budget (GMEEB) parameters.

Data and Method

In this section, the main equations for reverse forcing and modeling concepts are detailed. This will help in applying the model to potential solar geoengineering solutions.

Solar Geoengineering Reverse Forcing Method

Solar reverse forcing can be achieved by increasing the albedo of a target area. This is associated with a radiation change of a target denoted as ΔP_T (in Wm⁻²) reducing its solar absorption and increasing its reflectivity with a target's (T) albedo increase.

Cooling a target with an albedo increase not only reduces its surface solar absorption, but also reduces its subsequent related greenhouse gas (GHG) effect. The earth's average temperature is due to solar absorption warming and its subsequent GHG effect. The GHG portion can be estimated with a re-radiation parameter f (Feinberg, 2021b). GHGs re-radiation has been rigorously shown to have an average value of f = 62% found using a re-radiation model for the GMEEB (see Eqs 8, 20, and Table 3 in Feinberg, 2021b). This is close to estimates for the effective emissivity constant f ≈ ε_eff for the planetary system (Kimoto, 2009; Feinberg, 2021b—see Eq. 8 therein). Therefore, the overall GHG re-radiation reduction associated with a ΔP_T reflectivity change is further reduced by a (1+f ) factor that includes the cooling of the target itself and the secondary associated GHG re-radiation reduction (Eq. 9 in Feinberg, 2021b) where f = 0.62 (see Eq. 1 below).

Lastly, it is assumed in this paper that there will be eventual secondary feedback changes proportional to reverse forcing. This factor is estimated through a feedback amplification factor A_F and is also detailed in the author's GMEEB re-radiation model assessment (see Eq. 24 and Table 3 in Feinberg, 2021b) yielding 2.15. Feedback is considered to be dominated by water vapor which is higher in warmer humid climates (Chung et al., 2010; Feinberg, 2021c). Gordon et al. (2013) estimated an average water vapor feedback of about 2.4 Wm⁻²K⁻¹. Dessler et al. (2008) estimated 2.2 Wm⁻²K⁻¹. Feinberg (2021c) estimated an UHI water vapor feedback of about 3.4 Wm⁻²K⁻¹ for cities in humid environments. Authors agree that water vapor feedback has the capacity to about double the forcing such as direct warming from greenhouse gas increases. A doubling value of A_F = 2.15 was found by the author's GMEEB (see Eq. 24 and Table 3 in Feinberg, 2021b) assessment and is based on IPCC-related values and appears reasonable according to these authors.

In this paper, the UHI influence is studied from 1950 to 2019. In this period, the warming is about 0.95K (Earthobservatory, 2021) and is associated with a radiation increase of 5.11 Wm⁻² (see also Table 3 in Feinberg, 2021b) due to the GMEEB change in this time period.

These factors are applied to obtain a total reversal goal. The resulting equation for reverse forcing from a solar target area reflectivity increase associated with a radiation target change ΔP_T when secondary average GHG re-radiation and average feedback values are included is then

$\begin{array}{ll}\Delta P_{Rev}=-\Delta P_T(1+f)A_F& (1)\end{array}$

As described, an overview of the solar geoengineering reversal equation parameters is:

ΔP_Rev is the resulting reversal change due to reverse forcing of a target in Watts/m²

ΔP_T is the reverse forcing albedo change from a target area T in Watts/m²

(1+f ) is the GHG re-radiation factor estimated secondary effect where f = 0.62 (Feinberg, 2021b).

A_F is an estimate of the secondary feedback amplification, taken as 2.15 (Feinberg, 2021b) and assumed to follow a target's albedo increase

For example, the estimated GHG forcing in this period is 2.38 Wm⁻² (Butler and Montzka, 2020) from 1950 to 2019 (see also Feinberg, 2021b). With the feedback factor, the overall change for this time period is (2.38Wm⁻²) (2.15) = 5.11 Wm⁻². This yields a 0.95K increase agreeing with estimates between 1950 and 2019 (Earthobservatory, 2021; see also Table 3 in Feinberg, 2021b).

GMEEB Model Values

Estimating model parameters are important to provide a measure of accuracy. In this paper, the strategy is to mainly use estimates based on GMEEB values. Table 1 provides an overview of the model parameters used in making assessments in section Results.

TABLE 1

Table 1. Suggested model GMEEB^* estimates and other values.

The Solar Reverse Forcing Goal

A reverse forcing solar target goal ΔP_T using $\Delta P_{Rev}=\mathrm{\text{5}}\mathrm{\text{.11W}}{\mathrm{\text{m}}}^{\mathrm{\text{-2}}}$can now be obtained for the period 1950 to 2019 (Feinberg, 2021b). For this goal, then

$\begin{array}{ll}\Delta P_{Rev}=5.11\frac{W}{m^2}=\Delta P_T(1+f)A_F& (2)\end{array}$

Using A_F = 2.15, and f = 0.62, the required reverse forcing target goal is

$\begin{array}{ll}\Delta P_T=\frac{2.38W/m^2}{(1+f)}=1.47W{m}^{-2}& (3)\end{array}$

This value will be used throughout this paper to mitigate the estimated forcing that occurred between 1950 and 2019.

To achieve this goal the global albedo would need to increase from 30% to 30.432% to offset 5.11 Wm⁻² (where 0.00432 S_o/4 = 1.47Wm⁻² and S_o = 1361 Wm⁻²). This assumes global warming feedback (A_F) would also reverse trends. This estimate shows consistency with other authors in the applications (section Results) for space mirrors (Sánchez and McInnes, 2015), desert modification (Gaskill, 2004), and the author's GMEEB study (Feinberg, 2021b) detailed in section Results.

Note the albedo advantage (Feinberg, 2021b) with the help of re-radiation reduction. The actual reverse forcing target reduction reduces to ΔP_T = 1.47 Wm⁻² in Eq. 3 compared to the required GHG reverse forcing needing the full 2.38 Wm⁻² to reverse global warming. This is a 38% (=(2.38–1.47)/2.38) solar geoengineering albedo advantage (Feinberg, 2021b).

Nevertheless increasing the albedo of the earth's reflectivity from an albedo of 30% to 30.43% requires a lot of area modification as discussed in sec Results.

Converting the Reverse Forcing Goal to a Target Area

The target area model is similar to the author's work on urban heat islands (Feinberg, 2020). Earth's absorbed solar power P (W/m²) is given by

$\begin{array}{ll}P=\frac{S_o}{4}(1-\alpha )& (4)\end{array}$

Let small p indicate the power in watts so that

$\begin{array}{ll}p(watts)=A_{E}P(W{m}^{-2})& (5)\end{array}$

This is useful for re-writing Eq. 4 in terms of the earth's areas A_E for solar surface area A_S and cloud coverage area A_C which can be written as

$\begin{array}{l}p(watts)=A_E\frac{S_o}{4}(1-\alpha )=(A_S+A_C)\frac{S_o}{4}(1-\alpha )\\ \hfill =(X_C{A}_E+A_C)\frac{S_o}{4}(1-\alpha )& (6)\end{array}$

Note X_C is the sunlight irradiance reaching the earth's surface. For specific locations, this varies as it depends on the area selected for the target. For an estimate of X_C parameter's average value, the IPCC global mean earth's energy budget summarized in the IPCC report (Hartmann et al., 2013) can be used. The average solar power that reaches the earth's surface is 161 Wm⁻² out of 340 Wm⁻². This yields an average irradiance of 47% for X_C. Using this value, the solar area is

$\begin{array}{ll}{A}_E=A_S+A_C=X_C{A}_E+A_C=0.47A_E+A_C& (7)\end{array}$

Then expanding out the earth's areas

$\begin{array}{ll}p(watts)=\frac{S_o}{4}(X_C{A}_E(1-\alpha )+A_C(1-\alpha ))& (8)\end{array}$

Then dividing through by S_o/4 and A_E, and separating out the i^th earth components

$\begin{array}{l}\frac{4p(watts)}{A_E{S}_o}=\frac{4P(watts{m}^{-2})}{S_o}=X_C(1-\alpha )+\frac{A_C}{A_E}(1-\alpha )\\ \hfill =\frac{X_C}{A_E}{\sum }_i{A}_i(1-{\alpha }_i)+\frac{A_C}{A_E}(1-\alpha )& (9)\end{array}$

The final form including the target area and its potential heat amplification parameter H_T (see next section) is

$\begin{array}{l}P(watts/m^2)=\frac{S_o}{4}{\displaystyle \{{\sum }_i\frac{{(X_CÂ)}_i}{A_E}(1-{\alpha }_i)+\frac{X_C}{A_E}{A}_T{H}_T}\\ \hfill {\displaystyle (1-{\alpha }_T)+\frac{A_C}{A_E}(1-\alpha )\}}& (10)\end{array}$

Here  hat indicates all areas on the earth except the target area A_T. Then the change in radiation associated with a target albedo modification from α_T to ${{\alpha }^{\prime }}_T$ is,

$\begin{array}{ll}\Delta P_T=P^{\prime }({{\alpha }^{\prime }}_T)-P({\alpha }_T)=-\frac{S_o}{4}\frac{A_T}{A_E}{X}_C{H}_T\left[({{\alpha }^{\prime }}_T-{\alpha }_T)\right]& (11)\end{array}$

H_T Concept

In general, any hotspot on the earth, like Death Valley, or UHIs may amplify or intensify solar heat (somewhat like a magnifying glass). Here an H_T (≥1) parameter is assigned for the heat land amplification effect. For example, a common reason that land heat can intensify is often due to wind reduction issues. In the author's previous study, this amplification effect is explored. Many factors affect UHI heat amplification. For example, UHIs main amplification influence is likely the effective solar area due to tall buildings. Other UHI amplification effects include loss of natural cooling due to wind reduction, evapotranspiration, heat inversions, solar canyons that trap and increase solar absorption, reduction in wetlands, local water vapor feedback (Feinberg, 2021c), increase in heat capacity, dark impermeable surfaces having complex issues, and so forth. One method used by the author (Feinberg, 2020) for an amplification estimate is related to the UHI footprint (FP) observations. The FP was defined (Zhou et al., 2015) as the continuous extent emanating outward from urban centers to rural areas that have an evident UHI effect (i.e., where ΔT=T_UHI-T_Rural is statistically larger than zero). It is an observation of the extent of the UHIs heat which goes beyond the boundaries of the UHI and can be thought of as a measure of the UHI's ability for amplifying heat. The most comprehensive footprint study was done by Zhou et al. (2015) that spanned the period from 2003 to 2012. They found that the FP was proportional to area. Results found an average footprint value of 3.1 times the UHI area in this time period. This result agrees with an estimate of the UHI area growth factor from 1950 to 2019 (Feinberg, 2020). This value is used in section Assessing the Influence of Urbanization on Global Warming.

An alternate estimate by the author is to use the average UHI dome area (Fan et al., 2017) which provides both horizontal and vertical heat extent. Here the extent of the dome from 1950 to 2019 showed a spherical surface areas increase in this period by a factor of about 8.4 (Feinberg, 2020). This can be thought of as an upper bound for H_T. In section Assessing the Influence of Urbanization on Global Warming, based on the results of Zhang et al.'s (Zhang et al., 2021) data on urbanization warming, an H_T calibration factor of 5.2 is realized in roughly the same time period. This is in between the footprint and dome amplification estimates and close to their average. It provides a reasonable calibration value. In section Assessing the Influence of Urbanization on Global Warming, both H_T estimated values of 3.1 and 5.2 will be assessed.

Results

In section Space Mirror Model Estimate and section Sun-Dimming With Reflecting Particles in the Stratosphere, this model is used to compare results with some literature estimates on reverse forcing needed for space mirrors, desert modification and also indicate how one might assess sun-dimming. In section Assessing the Influence of Urbanization on Global Warming, estimates are provided on the urbanization global warming effect.

Space Mirror Model Estimate

Sánchez and McInnes (2015) provided estimates that were applicable for space mirrors or a non-reflecting black occulting disk or disks, with a shading proportion of ΔS/(S_o/4) = 1.7% solar flux reduction, where ΔS = 5.81 W/m² and S_o/4 = 340 W/m². Using Eq. 11, one can let X_C = 100% (and H_T = 1). Sun-shading can effectively translate to changing a target on earth reflectivity to ~100% from its prior average of 30% so that ${{\alpha }^{\prime }}_T-{\alpha }_T=0.7$. For space mirror, the irradiance occurs 24 h a day and the earth's curvature is not a factor, this increases S_o/4 to S_o, and then Eq. 11 is written.

$\begin{array}{ll}\text{Δ}{P}_T=-1361\frac{A_T}{A_E}\left[0.7\right](1)=-1.47W{m}^{-2}& (12)\end{array}$

yielding

$\begin{array}{ll}\frac{A_T}{A_E}=0.154\%& (13)\end{array}$

This indicates that if we fully block the sun from 0.154% of the earth, it effectively increases the area's reflectivity to 100%, and a reverse forcing of 1.47 Wm⁻² will result. From Eq. 1, the resulting final goal achieved would be a reversal of (section The Solar Reverse Forcing Goal)

$\begin{array}{l}\Delta P_{Rev}=-\Delta P_T(1+f)A_F=-1.47W{m}^{-2}(1.62)(2.15)\\ \hfill =-5.1W{m}^{-2}& (14)\end{array}$

This is close to Sanchez et al.'s goal of ΔS = 5.81 Wm⁻² (Sánchez and McInnes, 2015), but the objective is a little lower at 5.1 Wm⁻² in Eq. 2.

One notes the resulting shaded earth or disc required area in Eq. 13 equates to 510 × 10⁶ km² (0.00154) = 0.787 × 10⁶ km², yielding a radius of about 500.5 km. For almost similar goals, the improvement found in this paper is about a factor of 8.4 in the required disc reduced area. This is mainly because, in this paper, the goal is a little smaller, a maximum reflectivity of 100% is used (Sanchez et al. goal was roughly a little lower than 100%), and secondary effects of GHG re-radiation (1 + f ) = 1.62 and feedback A_F = 2.15 (section Solar Geoengineering Reverse Forcing Method; Table 1; Eq. 1) are incorporated in Eq. 14. As well, Sánchez and McInnes (2015) used their Equation 1 in their assessment. This is not comparable to Eq. 12 used in this paper's assessment.

The one main problem with sun-shading is the enormous space disk size. Sanchez et. al. described a non-reflecting black occulting disk with an area of 6.4 x 10⁶ km² and indicated an area weight conversion of 4 x 10³ kg/km². This equates to 25.7 million tons.

We note that the space disk radius is reduced by a factor of 3 compared to Figure 6 in Sánchez and McInnes, 2015. Further disc reductions will likely be found in the author's planned future work on solar geoengineering to stop annual global warming.

Nevertheless, weight issues are obviously problematic. For example, by comparison to the international space station that weighs about 420 ton (Garcia, 2021), reduced area estimates found here are better than Sanchez et al.'s estimates but still lead to weights that are much higher than the space station. However, further research in this area is still strongly encouraged. There are lightweight reflective foils or maybe alternate shading methods that could improve practicability further. A study by NASA, for example, could be helpful to detail possible achievable methods and is highly recommended as this is an important solar geoengineering solution.

Desert Estimate

In 2004, Gaskill et al. proposed covering deserts with a reflective polyethylene-aluminum surface to increase the mean desert albedo from 0.36 to 0.8, and estimated a significant reverse forcing of −2.75 Wm⁻². In their estimate, they used about 2% desert area of the earth (~ 4 million sq. miles done incrementally over 60 years). Most deserts have more than 80% irradiance. If one uses X_C = 92% and H_T = 1, with their same target change ${{\alpha }^{\prime }}_T-{\alpha }_T\mathrm{\text{=0}}\mathrm{\text{.44}}$into the model, one finds results that match the Gaskill et al. estimate where

$\begin{array}{l}\Delta P_T=-\frac{S_o}{4}\frac{A_T}{A_E}{X}_C{H}_T\left[({{\alpha }^{\prime }}_T-{\alpha }_T)\right]=-340\frac{A_T}{A_E}0.92\left[0.44\right]\\ \hfill =-2.75W{m}^{-2}& (15)\end{array}$

yielding

$\begin{array}{ll}\frac{A_T}{A_E}=2\%& (16)\end{array}$

This indicates that if we increase the reflectivity of 2% of the earth by 44%, the reverse forcing will equate to 2.75 Wm⁻².

However, using the goal in Eq. 3, this model shows an improved estimate finding the actual area needed can be reduced to about half of the Gaskill results, since

$\begin{array}{ll}\Delta P_T=-340\frac{A_T}{A_E}0.92\left[0.44\right]=-1.47W{m}^{-2}& (17)\end{array}$

yielding

$\begin{array}{l}\frac{A_T}{A_E}=1\%\text{ for full GW mitigation},\\ \frac{A_T}{A_E}=0.5\%\text{ for }50\%\text{ GW mitigation}& (18)\end{array}$

Furthermore, the desert heat amplification factor H_T while not modeled, is likely greater than one due to the area size and temperature differences with neighboring non-desert regions which would further reduce area requirements substantially (see section Natural Hotspots).

In the case where H_T = 1, the proportionate maintenance price (Eq. 18) could be reduced by half of the Gaskill and Reese (2003) estimate. Desert modification is an important solar geoengineering solution and more research should be done and promoted in this area. Advanced technologies could likely provide improved cost-effective methods.

Sun-Dimming With Reflecting Particles in the Stratosphere

As noted in section Space Mirror Model Estimate, space mirrors require a lot of effort and cost due to their size and weight. An alternative less expensive method proposed is sun-dimming with temporary reflecting particles into the stratosphere (Crutzen, 2006; Dykema et al., 2014; Ferraro et al., 2015; Keith et al., 2016; Tollefson, 2018; Keutsch, 2020). The likely particle choice is calcium carbonate which has good reflectivity and is an inexpensive substance. In terms of geoengineering shading requirements, a reasonable way to approach this is by looking at the sun's transmissibility change before and after the application of the sunlight-reflecting particles. Here the stratosphere solar transmissibility TR can be defined as

$\begin{array}{l}TR=SunS\text{tratosphere }\text{Amplitude Out}/SunS\text{tratosphere}\\ \hfill \text{Amplitude In}& (19)\end{array}$

From Eq. 3, the incoming radiation needs to decrease by the stated goal of 1.47 Wm⁻².

Considering the earth's solar absorbed radiation $\frac{S_o}{4}(1-.3)=238W{m}^{-2}$, a reduction estimate can be found from

$\begin{array}{ll}\frac{S_{o\text{\_}out}}{4}(1-.3)=238W{m}^{-2}-1.47W{m}^{-2}=236.5W{m}^{-2}& (20)\end{array}$

Solving yields $S_{o\text{\_}out}=1351.4W{m}^{-2}$. This is a reduction of 9.6 Wm⁻² required for the incoming sunlight.

If we measure the transmission of the incoming sunlight above and below the particle stratosphere treatment, the transmissibility from sun-dimming should be

$\begin{array}{ll}TR=1351.4W{m}^{-2}/1361W{m}^{-2}=99.3\%& (21)\end{array}$

This might provide an improvement for determining anticipated results. It is also important to assess possible large-scale effects (see section Discussion). Measuring the transmissibility is likely a helpful method. It is impossible to treat the entire stratosphere. If only half of the stratosphere were treated it would need a change of 2 x 9.6 Wm⁻², and for a quarter of the stratosphere, 4 x 9.6 Wm⁻², and so forth. Sun-dimming while considered an important temporary geoengineering solution, actually has larger area requirements than space mirrors, making it highly challenging.

Assessing the Influence of Urbanization on Global Warming

Modeling can be used to assess the influence of urbanization on global warming, its reverse forcing goals, detail the H_T parameter through calibration, and identify issues where it can be underestimated. Results can be compared to the author's prior work (Feinberg, 2020) and recent studies. In so doing, one can see how the key parameters involved and area complexities can influence the outcome.

The first major consideration is to provide an estimate for the change in the urban growth area from 1950 to 2019, the period of interest in this paper. An estimate has been provided in Appendix A and the resulting increase in urban growth extent in this period is

• 0.28% increase in urbanized occurred from 1950 to 2019

This estimate will be used in our assessment. However, if better estimates are eventually found they can be easily substituted into this model.

Also required in this model is an estimate for the UHI heat amplification parameter. This was discussed in section H_T Concept and two values are of interest, H_T = 3.1 and 5.2. The value 5.2 will be identified in this section as calibrated from Zhang et al.'s (Zhang et al., 2021) results.

The same model in Eq. 11 can be used to estimate global warming contributions due to urbanization. In this case, it is desirable to restore UHIs and LCLU areas to their original estimated albedo value before their existence. In a prior study (Feinberg, 2020) it was estimated that a value of α_T' = 0.2 (pre-UHI era) removes the urbanization forcing effect. This albedo value is comparable to that observed by He et al. (2014) that found that land albedo varies from 0.1 to 0.4 with an average of 0.25. Also, note that an average UHI albedo value from the author's prior study (Feinberg, 2020), used a value of α_T = 0.12 due to Sugawara and Takamura (2014).

Solar geoengineering of UHIs has been studied and increasing the UHI albedo by about 0.1 is feasible. In a paper by Akbari et al. (2012), it was estimated that “white rooftops and light-colored pavements, can increase the albedo of urban areas by about 0.1…. and could potentially offset some of the anticipated temperature increase caused by global warming.”

Then to restore the average UHIs' reflectivity, their albedo change requires an increase from α_T = 0.12 (Sugawara and Takamura, 2014) to α_T' = 0.2 (He et al., 2014; Feinberg, 2020) so that ${\alpha }_T^{\prime }-{\alpha }_T=0.08$. Then considering an average irradiance of 0.47, from Eq. 11

$\begin{array}{l}\Delta P_T=-\frac{S_o}{4}\frac{A_T}{A_E}{X}_C{H}_T\left[({{\alpha }^{\prime }}_T-{\alpha }_T)\right]=-340W/m^2(0.0028)\\ (0.47)H_T(0.08)=-H_{T}0.0358W{m}^{-2}& (22)\end{array}$

Then from Eq. 1, including secondary GHG and feedback effects, the urbanization effect denoted as P_{Rev_U} is

$\begin{array}{l}\Delta P_{Rev\text{\_}U}=-\Delta P_T(1+f)A_F=-H_{T}0.0358W{m}^{-2}(1.62)\\ \hfill (2.15)=-H_{T}0.1247W{m}^{-2}& (23)\end{array}$

Solving for the H_T values of interest then

$\begin{array}{ll}\Delta P_{\mathrm{Re}v\_U}=-\{\begin{array}{l}0.125W{m}^{-2}for{H}_T=1\hfill \\ 0.387W{m}^{-2}for{H}_T=3.1\hfill \\ 0.650W{m}^{-2}for{H}_T=5.22\hfill \end{array}& (24)\end{array}$

Then according to Eq. 2, where ΔP_Rev = 5.11 Wm⁻², the global warming percentage for each H_T value is

$\begin{array}{l}\hfill \Delta P_{\mathrm{Re}v\_U}/\Delta P_{\mathrm{Re}v}\\ =\{\begin{array}{l}0.125W{m}^{-2}/5.11W{m}^{-2}=2.4\%for{H}_T=1\hfill \\ 0.387W{m}^{-2}/5.11W{m}^{-2}=7.56\%for{H}_T=3.1\hfill \\ 0.650W{m}^{-2}/5.11W{m}^{-2}=12.7\%for{H}_T=5.22\hfill \end{array}& (25)\end{array}$

These are the estimated magnitudes of the urbanization effect on global averaged LST change from 1950 to 2019. These estimates can be considered reverse forcing SGU goals. Here the model finds that H_T = 5.22 matches the global warming measurement results of Zhang et al.'s (Zhang et al., 2021) work finding 12.7% of warming due to urbanization in this approximate time period and can be considered as a calibration estimate for H_T.

Results from Eqs 24 and 25 are summarized in Column 2 and 3, respectively, in Table 2.

TABLE 2

Table 2. UHI Global warming estimates (1950–2019).

The estimate of 7.6% gross warming using the H_T = 3.1 in Column 3 along with all the model's parameter estimates yields about the same results as the author's prior findings of 7.5% gross warming (16.2% for the forcing percent, Col. 4) in Feinberg (2020). However, this model is less complex. This 7.6% result is lower than Zhang et al.'s (Zhang et al., 2021) recent findings of 12.7% (last row of Table 2, Col. 3). Results of Zhang et al. (2021) are somewhat higher than the IPCC's upper anticipated range of 10% (Hartmann et al., 2013). When comparing to Zhang et al. (2021) findings, which used complex measurement methods in the same approximate period (1951–2018), this study finds that the H_T factor is a key parameter. Effectively, Zhang et al. (2021) results point to a higher amplification than the footprint estimate but lower than our dome estimate of 8.4 (see section H_T Concept). This is likely an indication of both horizontal (footprint) and vertical (dome) UHI extent. Therefore, it is an important calibrated value for H_T. Also note that in Table 2, the last column provides the forcing percent relative to the total forcing estimate of 2.38 Wm⁻² shown in Table 1 (also see Eq. 3) in this time period. These are also SGU reverse forcing goals.

It is difficult to make projections, but one might anticipate that heat pollution's influence on global warming will increase further by 2050 along with the UHI footprint as Yang et al. (2019) reported footprints rapidly growing at a rate of 4.4% per year in China. This further illustrates the strong need for solar geoengineering of urbanization (discussed in section Discussion).

Lastly, note the results in Table 2 when H_T = 1, this is discussed in section Discussion.

Solar Geoengineering Ideas for Drought Relief

Global warming creates high evaporation rates which have increased precipitation worldwide (EPA, 2020). However, in many areas, high evaporation rates lead to drought. Drought-prone areas have major concerns with water supplies for many reasons. A recent study by Milly and Dunne (2020) indicated that

• “Drought and warming have been shrinking Colorado River flow for many years. Milly and Dunne used a hydrologic model and historical observations to show that this decrease is due mainly to increased evapotranspiration caused by a reduction of albedo from snow loss and the associated rise in the absorption of solar radiation.”

Out-of-the-box ideas are likely needed to fight drought as many areas are near crisis levels in water supplies requiring creative solutions. In 2011–2012, the Peruvian Andes mountain tops were painted white to cool the atmosphere and bring back the shrinking glaciers. There a team painted over 50,000 square feet of rock white with a mixture of lime, water, and sand which was at an elevation of about 14,000 feet above sea level. This lowered rock temperatures some 30^oF cooler than unpainted areas in hopes to save glaciers and water supplies. We see from Eq. 26 results, dark rocks can emit a significant amount of solar heat. Those experiments did curb glacial retreat on a small scale but were unable to bring ice fully back (Grossman, 2012).

Solar geoengineering's state-of-the-art potential is a lot higher today. Drone technology has had major advances for painting buildings (Maghazel and Netland, 2019) and in agriculture spray methods (Klauser and Pauschinger, 2021). Possibly other technologies could be developed specifically for mountain top brightening. New bright white surface treatments are being developed to help cool the earth (Li et al., 2021). Possibly an agency like SpaceX or NASA could vastly improve drones or hover aircraft to brighten needed mountain top areas. Furthermore, studies could help assess the best strategies to try and improve winter snow coverage by identifying needed areas in the Rockys' for example, where snow coverage has been lost due to global warming effects. This could be done in the summer months. Improvement in winter precipitation through local mountain top cooling using this method is not unrealistic where some proof of concept has been demonstrated in Peru.

Furthermore, advanced intelligent drone technology should also be used to brighten buildings and rooftops to cool UHIs.

Another likely drought-related issue is that most reservoirs are located near Urban Heat Islands (UHI). This is true of the many urban reservoirs in the western part of the U.S. While many of these urban reservoirs may appear to be away from the city limits, the UHI footprint effect likely still impacts evaporation rates, especially in dry climates where evaporation is accelerated. Lake Mead reservoir in NV is having water problems and is reasonably close to Las Vegas, well within 3.1 times the area's footprint estimates (radius of $1.8=\sqrt{3.1}$) used in section Assessing the Influence of Urbanization on Global Warming that can affect lake evaporation rates by the city's heat pollution. Water loss due to evaporation can be in the millions of gallons per day. Lake Shasta, near Shasta County, Ca. for example, on a July 19, 2017 measurement, 210 million gallons of water evaporated (Arthur, 2017) were observed. In a remote sensing and modeling study by Zhao and Gao (2019) on 721 reservoirs, they found annual evaporation “equivalent to 93% of the annual public water supply of the United States (in 2010).” Implementing cool roads and roofs on the reservoir side could reduce these evaporation rates. In Section Heat Pollution from Dark Surfaces for example, results illustrate that on average heat pollution from black roads and roofs equated to 2.5 GWh per acre per year when secondary effects are included. This equated to 74,000 gallons of gasoline energy per year per acre of black roads or roofs or 7.5 times more energy than a solar power plant produces per acre.

Heat Pollution From Dark Surface

Considering the land albedo to average about 25% reflectivity (He et al., 2014), one definition of heat pollution is that any manmade surface or combination of surfaces with resulting lower reflectivity than 25% and H ≥ 1, creates ‘heat pollution’ (i.e., improper land-cover and land-use) contributing to global warming.

To understand how heat pollution makes incremental warming contributions and the importance of key parameters, a comparison can be made between the energy from heat pollution due to black roads and roofs, to solar cells and gasoline energy. Consider an acre (4046 m²) of black roads or roofs with an average albedo of 0.125 (Ramirez and Munoz, 2014) compared to the average land albedo of 0.25 (He et al., 2014) so that ${\alpha }_T^{\prime }-{\alpha }_T=0.25-0.125=0.125$. Then from Eq. 5 and Eq. 11

$\begin{array}{l}\Delta p_T(watts)=\Delta P_T(watts/m^2)A_E=\frac{S_o}{4}{A}_T{X}_C{H}_T\left[({{\alpha }^{\prime }}_T-{\alpha }_T)\right]\\ =340\frac{W}{m^2}(4046m^2)(0.47)(1)(0.125)=80,820watts& (26)\end{array}$

Then in a year, the total watt-hours are 80,820 watts x 24hrs/day x 365 days = 0.71 GWh per acre per year. If we include key parameter secondary effects from GHG re-radiation (1+f) = 1.62 and feedback A_F = 2.15 (Sec. 2.1, Table 1 and Eq. 1), it increases this estimate to 2.5 GWh. This is about 7.5 times more energy in heat pollution than a solar power plant produces where studies have found they average about 0.33 GWh per acres per year (Ong et al., 2013). Furthermore, a gallon of gas equates to 33.6 kWh (Wikipedia, 2021). Then this heat pollution equates to 74,200 gallons of gasoline energy per year per acre.

This illustrates the enormous energy in an acre of heat pollution and how black roads and roofs make significant incremental warming contributions. This offsets much of the benefits created by solar power plants and produces a large amount of heat pollution energy up to 2.5 GWh per year per acre (with secondary effects are included).

To offset the effect of black roofs, cool roofs in a mixture of climates across the U.S. has been studied by Levinson et al. in Levinson and Akbari (2010) with a “heat transfer module to simulate in each of 236 US cities (well distributed in many climates in the U.S. see their Fig. 5) the annual heating and cooling energy uses of new and old office and retail building prototypes…. when roof solar reflectance is increased to 0.55 (weathered cool white roof) from 0.20 (weathered conventional gray roof)”. They reported results showing, “an annual CO₂ reduction … offsetting the annual CO₂ emissions of 1.20 million cars or 25.4 peak power plants; an annual NO_x reduction offsetting the annual NO_x emissions of 0.57 million cars or 65.7 peak power plants; an annual SO₂ reduction offsetting the annual SO₂ emissions of 815 peak power plants; and an annual Hg reduction of 126 kg.

Discussion

Certainly, a key value in assessing UHI and LCLU warming is its estimated urban growth area as it will influence a model's outcome. For example, a 2012 Stanford modeling study (Jacobson and Hoeve, 2012) used a UHI area of 0.128%, where a Schneider et al. (2009) available estimate recognized in IPCC references (Satterthwaite et al., 2014) would have extrapolated to 0.17%, in 2012, yielding a 33% discrepancy (Feinberg, 2021d).

Without applying any amplification effect (H_T = 1) in the urbanization estimate, results would be about 2.4% (Table 2, Column 3). We see the model also helps improve our understanding of the UHI influence on global warming. Many authors have assessed UHIs' importance in a wide variety of ranges both with modeling and measurements (Zhao, 1991; McKitrick and Michaels, 2004, 2007; Feddema et al., 2005; De Laat and Maurellis, 2006; Ren et al., 2007, 2008; Jones et al., 2008; Schmidt, 2009; Stone, 2009; Yang et al., 2011; Zhang et al., 2013; Zhao et al., 2013; Huang and Lu, 2015; Sun et al., 2016).

• The Zhang et al. (2021) study reference in section Assessing the Influence of Urbanization on Global Warming is the most comprehensive recent global measurement study and used a new method based on machine learning to classify the observatory stations into rural and urban retaining 12,505 stations out of 33,878 worldwide. Based on their new method, it was estimated from 1951 to 2018, urbanization is contributing about 12.7% to global land average annual mean surface air warming (shown in Table 2).

Such findings support the use of amplification in modeling and that all the parameters in Eqs 1 and 11 are required for solar geoengineering estimates as detailed in section Assessing the Influence of Urbanization on Global Warming.

Solar geoengineering can be limiting since large-scale effects such as weather, hydrological cycle (Bala and Nag, 2012), agricultural issues, etc. can be a concern in governance and uncertainty (Royal Society, 2009; Reynolds, 2019). This is especially true in sun-dimming, desert modifications, or any large area that is modified in earth brightening. However, cool roofs, roads (Cambridge Systematics, 2005; NYC Regional Heat Island Initiative, 2006; Zinzi and Agnoli, 2012; Albers et al., 2015), and the regulations suggested below would not create problems on a large scale (Levinson and Akbari, 2010) and would be highly advantageous with numerous advantages where 55% of the world's population live which is likely to increase to near 70% by 2050 (Worldbank, 2020). It could have an important impact on global warming trends to cool off cities including local health effects.

For UHI and LCLU heat pollution global warming effect, there are many assessments both with measurements and modeling estimates. A true estimation of the impact of urbanization on global warming is very difficult and may be hard to fully realize. Nevertheless, given the advantages of solar geoengineering for cooling off cities including health benefits, it is clear that heat pollution needs to be addressed better.

Heat Pollution is an immediate danger in cities (see also Section Heat Pollution from Dark Surfaces), affecting health and death rates (Buechley et al., 1972; Changnon et al., 1996; Kovats and Hajat, 2008; Liao et al., 2018; Tuholske et al., 2021; Watts et al., 2021), and hurting economies (Burke et al., 2015; Day et al., 2019).

Also, the UHI footprint affects vegetation phenology (Zhang et al., 2004) and their growing season (Kabano et al., 2021). Furthermore, evidence exists for synergistic effects with heatwaves and UHIs. Liao et al. (2018) in a study on heatwave exacerbation from UHIs showed a strong synergistic heatwave effect observed both in duration and frequency. Liao also noted that “in wet climates, the increasing trends of heatwaves in urban areas are greater than those in rural areas, suggesting a positive contribution of urbanization to heatwave trends.” This is supported by higher UHI water-vapor feedback estimates in humid climates (Feinberg, 2021c). Zhao et al. (2014) found higher temperatures in humid vs dry climates in UHIs. In China, Kong et al. (2020) found “the occurrence probability of human-perceived heatwaves nearly doubled in China over recent decades, of which urbanization and greenhouse gases contribute to 21.9% and 72.9% of the intensification of heatwaves, respectively.

The fact that Yang et al. (2019) reported from 2003 to 2016 in 302 cities in China, day-night footprints rapidly growing at a rate of 4.4% per year, is an alarming finding. This is much larger than the population growth rate in China which has been under 0.75% for this time period (Statista, 2022) and is, therefore, an unexpected disturbing finding. This is further proof of the rapid increase in heat pollution that may also be occurring worldwide.

The rapid growth of city footprints, heatwave frequencies and durations in cities, and their significant contributions to global warming, all illustrate the serious need for solar geoengineering in cities to reduce heat pollution worldwide requiring coordinated efforts through needed Paris Accord goals as suggested below.

Results indicate the need for heat pollution Paris Accord restriction goals. In Australia for example, mandatory national construction codes are being implemented to require cooler roofs in the suburb of Sydney's southwest area and there is an effort to require it nationwide by the end of 2022 (William, 2021). A similar worldwide effort could be included in the Paris Accord goals. The inclusion of solar geoengineering goals in the Paris Accord would ensure coordinated efforts, for improving needed mitigation. Successful SGU would require regulations and Paris Accord goals for major manmade surfaces exposed to solar radiation to be at least as reflective as the earth's land (He et al., 2014) necessitating regulations (see Section Heat Pollution from Dark Surfaces). For example, suggested goals are:

• Roofs: 25% reflective or greater.

• Roofs in warm climates: 85% reflective where solar heat absorption is not needed for heating homes.

• Roads: 35% reflective or greater.

• Sides of buildings: 25% reflective or greater.

• Cars: 85% reflective or greater.

Natural Hotspots

Natural hotspots like deserts discussed in section Desert Estimate on the earth are likely good geoengineering targets to consider cooling to help reduce climate change. Similar to UHIs, natural hotspots likely have measurable footprints that could help assess their H_T amplification estimate. Certainly, natural hotspots would be highly controversial geoengineering targets. Nevertheless, their amplification of heat and its effect on the earth's temperature will likely be related to their area and temperature differences to neighboring non-hotspots areas similar to how the UHI effect is treated in section Assessing the Influence of Urbanization on Global Warming. Some examples of such hotspots include:

• Flaming Mountains, China

• Bangkok, Thailand (planet's hottest city)

• Death Valley California

• Deserts

• Tirat Zvi, Israel

• Badlands of Australia

Conclusions

Geoengineering solar solutions, while extremely challenging, are vital to helping mitigate global warming and cooling off cities. Today, technology has numerous advances that could help in earth brightening (such as drone devices as discussed in section Solar Geoengineering Ideas for Drought Relief) and/or sun-dimming. Humankind has addressed many technological challenges successfully. This paper provided a helpful new versatile solar geoengineering model used in a broad range of applications. Estimates for solar geoengineering using this model showed significant improvements in feasibility when compared to the literature in the area of space mirrors and desert surface estimates. It is recommended that these areas be reassessed for solar geoengineering. Also suggested was a method to estimate stratosphere sun-dimming. Solar geoengineering solutions have two main advantages; they produce fast results and have a 38% improved albedo advantage compared to GHG removal (section The Solar Reverse Forcing Goal; Feinberg, 2021b).

In assessing the urbanization effect on global warming, important parameters that need careful consideration are the UHI heat amplification value, the GHG re-radiation factor, feedback, an estimate of urbanization area growth, and GMEEB values (Table 1). Modeling results indicate that the urbanization effect that is likely dominated by the UHIs' influence are about 7.6% to 12.7% of the LST warming trend that occurred between 1950 and 2019. These correspond to forcing percentages of 16% to 27% (see Table 2). Estimates depended on the value used for the heat amplification parameter H_T.

Section Discussion indicated the serious need for solar geoengineering especially in cities, not only due to the contributions of urbanization to global warming but for related health and economic reasons due to exposure of increases in heatwave synergy effects with UHIs and the rapid increase of footprint growth that affects many environmental issues (section Discussion). Some data suggest that UHI heat pollution footprint growth is occurring at a much faster pace than the population growth rate (section Discussion) and mitigation requires mainly albedo management of black roads and rooftops.

Paris Accord goals were suggested in section Discussion for the successful implementation of a coordinated worldwide SGU efforts. This would provide climate help in cities where 55% of the population lives which is expected to increase to almost 70% by 2050 (Worldbank, 2020). SGU is capable of making a large difference with a worldwide effort. However, currently improper urbanization design is dominating growth and heat pollution is rampant.

Solar geoengineering represents a practical and efficient way (Feinberg, 2021b, see also section The Solar Reverse Forcing Goal on the albedo advantage) to lower temperatures quickly in UHIs and globally in this climate crisis and is therefore highly recommended.

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