CORRECTION article

Front. Clim., 05 September 2022

Sec. Predictions and Projections

Volume 4 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2022.994381

Corrigendum: Solar geoengineering modeling and applications for mitigating global warming: Assessing key parameters and the urban heat island influence

  • Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States

In the published article, there was an error. The percentage of the forcing (used in Table 2) was unclear and should be removed from the Abstract.

A correction has been made to Abstract. This sentence previously stated:

“The UHI reverse forcing requirements are assessed with amplification estimates of 3.1 and 5.2, yielding 7.6% to 12.7% of gross global warming (corresponding to forcing percentages of 16% to 27%) could be due to the urbanization effect, respectively.”

The corrected sentence appears below:

“The UHI reverse forcing requirements are assessed with amplification estimates of 3.1 and 5.2, yielding 7.6% to 12.7% of gross global warming could be due to the urbanization effect, respectively.”

A correction has been made to the Introduction, paragraph 4. This sentence previously stated:

“This 12.7% gross warming equates to a forcing of 27.3% (see Table 2 in Section Assessing the Influence of Urbanization on Global Warming).”

The corrected sentence appears below:

“This 12.7% gross warming equates to a percentage of the forcing (see Table 2 details in Section Assessing the Influence of Urbanization on Global Warming).”

There was an error. Percentage of the forcing (used in Table 2) is unclear to the reader and should be further clarified in the Introduction.

A correction has been made to Introduction, paragraph 5. This sentence previously stated:

“The author's prior geoengineering modeling results (Feinberg, 2020) agree with the current findings in this paper which is 7.6% gross warming and forcing of 16.2% (section Assessing the Influence of Urbanization on Global Warming) for the urbanization global warming influence.”

The corrected sentence appears below:

“The author's prior geoengineering modeling results (Feinberg, 2020) agree with the current findings in this paper which is 7.6% gross warming and a percentage of the forcing (see Table 2 details in section Assessing the Influence of Urbanization on Global Warming), for the urbanization global warming influence.”

In the original article, there was a mistake in Table 1 as published. Forcing percentage in Table 2, Col 4, the column should have a clearer label as the denominator of 2.38 Wm−2 comes from a GHG forcing reference in Table 1. The corrected Table 1 appears below.

Table 1

ParameterPeriodModel ValueSource
ΔPRev, required reversal1950–2019*5.11 Wm−2(Feinberg, 2021b)
ΔPT reverse forcing target T goal1950–2019*1.47 Wm−2(Feinberg, 2021b and Section 2.3)
AF feedback value1950–2019*2.15(Feinberg, 2021b)
ΔPRev/AF GHG forcing1950–2019*2.38 Wm−2(Butler et al., 2020)
f re-radiation parameter2019*0.62(Feinberg, 2021b)
XC solar irradiance2019*0.47(Hartmann, 2013 and Section 2.4)
UHI heat amplification HT1950–20193.1, 5.2(Feinberg, 2020, and Section 3.4)
albedo of the Earth2019*0.30(Feinberg, 2021b)
average albedo of land20140.25(He, 2014, see Section 3.4)
mitigating UHI albedo1950–20190.2(Feinberg, 2020, see Section 3.4)
UHI average albedo20140.12(Sugawara and Takamura, 2014, see Section 3.4)

Suggested model GMEEB* estimates and other values.

In the original article, there was a mistake in Table 2 as published. Forcing in Table 2 includes feedback per Equation 23 and this was missed. The corrected Table 2 appears below.

Table 2

HTForcing & Feedback ΔPRevU (WM−2)Global Warming Percent ΔpRevuPRevPercentage of GHGΔpRevu
2.38Wm−2**Forcing
10.1252.4%5.3%
3.10.3877.6%16.2%
5.22*0.6512.7%*27.3%*

UHI Global warming estimates (1950–2019).

*

Zhang et al.'s (2021) results, **see Table 1 and Section 2.3.

**

See Table 1 and Section The Reverse Forcing Goal.

In the published article, there was an error. In Equation 26 an extra term AE was added after the second equal sign.

A correction has been made to Results, “Heat Pollution From Dark Surface”

This equation previously stated:

The corrected equation appears below:

The authors apologize for these errors and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.

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References

  • 1

    FeinbergA. (2020). Urban heat island amplification estimates on global warming using an albedo model. SN Appl. Sci.2, 2178. 10.1007/s42452-020-03889-3

Summary

Keywords

solar geoengineering, UHI global warming estimates, UHI footprint, heat pollution, land-cover/land-use, drought relief, reservoir evaporation, Paris Accord suggested goals

Citation

Feinberg A (2022) Corrigendum: Solar geoengineering modeling and applications for mitigating global warming: Assessing key parameters and the urban heat island influence. Front. Clim. 4:994381. doi: 10.3389/fclim.2022.994381

Received

14 July 2022

Accepted

01 August 2022

Published

05 September 2022

Volume

4 - 2022

Edited and reviewed by

Yuanjian Yang, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China

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Copyright

*Correspondence: Alec Feinberg

This article was submitted to Predictions and Projections, a section of the journal Frontiers in Climate

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All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.

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