Publications — Bibliothèque de recherche MEER

Measuring and Modelling the Climate Impacts of Reflective Surfaces

A ground-up methodology for quantifying what reflective surfaces actually do to Earth's energy balance.

There is still no universally accepted way to answer some deceptively simple questions: how much extra sunlight does a reflective intervention send back, where does that energy go, and how much of it genuinely leaves the Earth system? Most existing work starts from satellites or the top of the atmosphere. This paper reverses that perspective and starts from quantities that can be measured at the surface, then connects them upward through atmospheric data and simplified radiative transfer.

What it aims to establish

A reproducible method any research group can apply
A consistent basis for comparing different reflective technologies
A bridge between field measurement and atmospheric modelling
Foundations for future standards in reflective cooling assessment

Evaluating the Cooling Potential and Global Scalability of Climate Solutions

Two new metrics for asking whether a climate solution can physically cool the planet — and be built at the scale required.

Climate interventions are still largely judged by carbon accounting, which measures emissions rather than the underlying physical problem: excess heat accumulating in the Earth system. This paper proposes a complementary, technology-independent framework built around two questions — can a solution actually remove or prevent planetary heat, and do the materials, manufacturing capacity and workforce exist to deploy it fast enough to matter?

What it aims to establish

Formal definitions and scientific foundations for both metrics
A technology-independent evaluation method
Worked illustrations drawn from surface-based passive cooling systems
A shift in framing from carbon accounting toward planetary energy balance

Publications.

Framework papers in preparation

Measuring and Modelling the Climate Impacts of Reflective Surfaces

Evaluating the Cooling Potential and Global Scalability of Climate Solutions

Impacts of global greenhouse on albedo and local land surface temperature

“The apex of all climate interventions”? Reducing vulnerability to extreme heat in urban West Africa with direct cooling technology through Mirrors for Earth's Energy Rebalancing (MEER)

Global heat stress intensification and its expanding footprint on the human population

A safe climate means cooling an overheated planet: a framework for reversing dangerous warming and restoring climate safety

The Global Warming Potential of Geoengineering via Radiative Cooling

Radiative forcing reduced by early twenty-first century increase in land albedo

Assessing the impacts of mitigation and geoengineering intervention scenarios on Earth system dynamics and climatological variability with multimodal simulations

Removing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Using Large Land or Ocean Areas Will Change Earth Albedo and Force Climate

A Strong Constraint on Radiative Forcing of Well-Mixed Greenhouse Gases

The Global Patterns of Instantaneous CO₂ Forcing at the Top of the Atmosphere and the Surface

A Simplified Method to Calculate Atmospheric CO₂ Equivalency for Changing Surface Albedo