DMF paper: Southeast Asia team explores SRM impact on rainfall
Palm oil plantations in East Kalimantan, Indonesia – Copernicus Sentinel-2 (2019) Credit: ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO. A DMF-funded team in Indonesia with members from across Southeast Asia – including Malaysia and Vietnam – have published ground-breaking research on the impacts of solar radiation modification (SRM) on floods and droughts in the region. The paper’s […]
DECIMALS Fund changed to the Degrees Modelling Fund
As SRMGI has become the Degrees Initiative, the name of our modelling fund has changed too and the DECIMALS Fund will now be known as the Degrees Modelling Fund (DMF). The DMF will be doing everything that DECIMALS did – supporting teams of scientists in the Global South as they explore how SRM could affect […]
DMF researcher Inés Camilloni gives TEDx talk
Professor Inés Camilloni, who leads the Degrees Modelling Fund’s research project at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina, appealed for more research into the potential drawbacks and benefits of SRM in her TEDxRiodelaPlata talk: Geoingeniería solar:¿quién controla el termostato de la Tierra? (Solar geoengineering: who controls the Earth’s thermostat?). She explained why stratospheric aerosol […]
DMF Paper: SRM temperature and precipitation in Africa
DMF Team Côte d’Ivoire Paper Influence of stratospheric aerosol geoengineering on temperature mean and precipitation extremes indices in Africa – International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, S. Obahoundje, V. H. N’Guessan-Bi, A. Diedhiou, B. Kravitz, J. C. Moore Summary Climate change is leading to increasing temperature extremes around the world, and Africa is […]
Second DMF Research Residency at Harvard
On 5-8 July 2022 the Harvard Solar Geoengineering Research Program (SGRP) hosted a research residency for Degrees Modelling Fund (DMF) research scientists. The residency offered a unique chance for SRM researchers from around the world to meet in person, share ideas, and develop better ways to explore the impacts of solar radiation modification (SRM). Participants […]
DMF researchers lead session at GRC
Gordon Research Conferences (GRC) are prestigious international conferences focused on issues of cutting-edge science and in June there was a Gordon conference focused on SRM. To their credit, the conference organisers made sure that there was a session entirely about SRM impacts in the developing world and we were delighted that it was run entirely […]
Degrees Modelling Fund – second call for proposals
The Degrees Initiative, in partnership with TWAS, The World Academy of Sciences, is pleased to announce the opening of the second call for proposals for the Degrees Modelling Fund (DMF). The DMF supports teams of scientists in the Global South as they model how solar radiation modification geoengineering (SRM) might affect the climate in their […]
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 […]
DMF Paper: The effect of SRM on malaria risk
DMF Team Bangladesh Paper Solar geoengineering could redistribute malaria risk in developing countries – Nature Communications, C.J. Carlson, R. Colwell, M. S. Hossain, M. M. Rahman, A. Robock, S. J. Ryan, M. S. Alam, C. H. Trisos Summary For billions of people, one of the most urgent impacts of climate change will be the spread […]
DMF Paper: SRM and meteorological droughts in West Africa
DMF Team Benin Paper Impact of Stratospheric aerosol geoengineering on meteorological droughts in West Africa – Atmosphere, A. E. Alamou, E. Obada, E. I. Biao, E. B. J. Zandagba, C. Y. Da-Allada, F. K. Bonou, E. Baloïtcha, S. Tilmes, P. J. Irvine Summary Climate change is making droughts and floods more frequent, and for West […]