Studying Ship Tracks To Inform Climate Intervention Decision-Makers

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Ship tracks are an unintentional example of marine cloud brightening, a group of technologies being considered for slowing climate change

and its impacts. Marine cloud brightening works by creating ocean clouds that reflect some sunlight back to space before its heat is absorbed in the atmosphere or by Earth’s surface.

These two groups of technologies have the potential to counteract the effect of greenhouse gases, which work by trapping heat, but could have negative side effects. The Sandia researchers hope to understand the potential effects of marine cloud brightening on global precipitation, regional temperature differences and more well before any large-scale experiments are conducted on the planet we all call home, Shand and Roesler said.The focus of Shand’s project was to develop analytical tools to understand the formation and behaviors of ship tracks.

 

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