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the proposal to spray sea-salt particles into low marine clouds so they become brighter and reflect more sunlight, cooling the surface below.

In climate science, marine cloud brightening refers to the proposal to spray sea-salt particles into low marine clouds so they become brighter and reflect more sunlight, cooling the surface below. This meaning comes from Latham (2008) in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences.[1]

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  1. Latham, J., Rasch, P., Chen, C., Kettles, L., Gadian, A., Gettelman, A., Morrison, H., Bower, K., & Choularton, T. (2008). Global temperature stabilization via controlled albedo enhancement of low-level maritime clouds. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 366(1882), 3969-3987. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2008.0137

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