Solar Radiation Management

The Simons Foundation's Mathematics and Physical Sciences division invites letters of intent for fundamental research addressing scientific knowledge gaps relevant to solar radiation management. Priorities include environmentally benign materials for stratospheric aerosol injection and cirrus-cloud thinning, laboratory physicochemical characterization, approaches to minimize cirrus formation, near-field turbulence modelling, and integration of improved aerosol and turbulence representations into global models. In-situ aerosol-release field experiments and social-science research are outside the call's scope.

Eligible applicants include established U.S. and non-U.S. public or private educational and nonprofit institutes, research centres and national laboratories, subject to the source's exclusions. Academic principal investigators must hold a tenured, tenure-track or equivalent position in a department with a PhD programme; qualifying non-academic investigators must be full-time, non-visiting PhD-level research or senior scientists. Each proposal normally has no more than three principal investigators.