Publications & research.
A curated library of peer-reviewed papers, conference proceedings and technical publications related to MEER's research areas, including passive radiative cooling, heat stress, climate physics, surface albedo and Earth's energy balance.
- 2026Conference Paper·Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University
Impacts of global greenhouse on albedo and local land surface temperature
Yan Li, Yiqing Liu
- 2026Preprint·Submitted to Cities, Environmental Research Letters, or Climatic Change
“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)
Benjamin K. Sovacool
- 2026Journal Paper·Nature Climate Change
Global heat stress intensification and its expanding footprint on the human population
Rebecca Emerton, Julien Nicolas, Anna Lombardi & Claudia Di Napoli
- 2025Journal Paper·Advanced Sustainable Systems
The Global Warming Potential of Geoengineering via Radiative Cooling
Atousa Pirvaram, Siu Ning Leung & Paul G. O’Brien
- 2025Journal Paper·Nature
Radiative forcing reduced by early twenty-first century increase in land albedo
Zhengyang Hou, Liqiang Zhang, Jingjing Peng, Giovanni Forzieri, Aolin Jia, Zhiqiang Xiao, Ying Qu, Jintai Lin, Duoying Ji, Zidong Zhu, Xin Yao, Shuwen Peng, Lanpu Zhao, Wenjie Fan, Zhaocong Wu, Hao Geng, Qihao Wang, Chenghu Zhou, Suhong Liu & Liangpei Zhang
- 2025Journal Paper·Scientific Reports
Assessing the impacts of mitigation and geoengineering intervention scenarios on Earth system dynamics and climatological variability with multimodal simulations
Bradley A. Gay, Lukas Mandrake, Kimberley R. Miner & Charles E. Miller
- 2024Journal Paper·Journal Paper
A Strong Constraint on Radiative Forcing of Well-Mixed Greenhouse Gases
Recent advances in GHG forcing estimation
- 2023Journal Paper·Journal of Climate
The Global Patterns of Instantaneous CO₂ Forcing at the Top of the Atmosphere and the Surface
Yan-Ting Chen, Yi Huang & Timothy M. Merlis
- 2023Conference Paper·6th International Conference on Countermeasures to Urban Heat Islands (IC2UHI)
A Simplified Method to Calculate Atmospheric CO₂ Equivalency for Changing Surface Albedo
Hashem Akbari