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ArticleScience advances2025

How marine cloud brightening could also affect stratospheric ozone.

Ewa M Bednarz, James M Haywood, Daniele Visioni, Amy H Butler, Andy Jones

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Article in Science advances, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Ewa M BednarzCooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7441-0497
James M HaywoodCollege of Engineering, Maths and Physical Science, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2143-6634
Daniele VisioniDepartment of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7342-2189
Amy H ButlerNOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (NOAA CSL), Boulder, CO, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3632-0925
Andy JonesCollege of Engineering, Maths and Physical Science, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-1814-7601

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stratospheric ozone plays a crucial role in life and ecosystems on Earth, with a vast amount of research focused on the effects of human activities on ozone. Yet, impacts of tropospheric climate intervention methods like marine cloud brightening (MCB) have not previously been considered to reach the stratosphere. In this study, we demonstrate that MCB can also have a significant impact on both stratospheric and tropospheric ozone, and discuss the processes via which such an influence could occur. Our results demonstrate the inherent coupling between the troposphere and the stratosphere and underscore the need to assess not just the potential surface climate impacts of MCB, or any other climate intervention, but also their holistic interaction with the whole Earth system, including the middle atmosphere.

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PMID40367162
PMCPMC12077500

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