Skip to content
La Plata, Argentina, NASA
La Plata, Argentina. Credit: NASA

First SRM study in Latin America

DMF Team Argentina

Paper

La Plata Basin Hydroclimate Response to Solar Radiation Modification with Stratospheric Aerosol Injection – Frontiers in Climate, Ines Camilloni, Natalia Montroull, Carla Gulizia and Ramiro I. Saurral

Summary

The La Plata Basin (LPB) is the fifth largest freshwater basin in the world, and a crucial source for 160 million people in southern Latin America. Climate change has had a big impact on precipitation and increasing river flows, with significant impacts on the region.

This study in Climate Risk Management explored some of the costs, benefits and trade-offs of deploying SRM – when compared to a warmer world without SRM –  in the La Plata river basin.

It also kickstarted a crucial field of climate science in the Latin America region, setting the stage for further essential research in this field.

The Degrees Initiative
Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.