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Ben Kravitz

Title: Post-doc
Lab: Caldeira
Phone: (650) 462-1047
Email: bkravitz@carnegie.stanford.edu
curriculum vitae
Summary

Research Interests
- Climate change
- Climate modeling
- Geoengineering
- Volcanic eruptions
- Dynamical systems and linear control theory
- Atmospheric radiative transfer


This page last updated 2 May 2012.

Publications

2012

Kravitz, B., A. Robock, D. T. Shindell, and M. A. Miller (2012), Sensitivity of stratospheric geoengineering with black carbon to aerosol size and altitude of injection, Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1029/2011JD017341, in press.

Kravitz, B., D. G. MacMynowski, and K. Caldeira (2012), Geoengineering: Whiter skies?, Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2012GL051652, in press.

2011

Kravitz, B. and A. Robock (2011), The climate effects of high latitude eruptions: The role of the time of year, Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, D01105, doi:10.1029/2010JD014448. (Press)

Kravitz, B., A. Robock, O. Boucher, H. Schmidt, K. E. Taylor, G. Stenchikov, and M. Schulz (2011), The Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP), Atmospheric Science Letters, 12, 162-167, doi:10.1002/asl.316.

Robock, A., B. Kravitz, and O. Boucher (2011), Standardizing experiments in geoengineering: GeoMIP stratospheric aerosol geoengineering workshop, Eos, 92(23), 197-198, doi:10.1029/2011EO230008.

Kravitz, B., A. Robock, O. Boucher, H. Schmidt, and K. E. Taylor (2011), Specifications for GeoMIP experiments G1 through G4, Version 1.0.

Kravitz, B., A. Robock, A. Bourassa, T. Deshler, D. Wu, I. Mattis, F. Finger, A. Hoffmann, C. Ritter, L. Bitar, T. J. Duck, and J. E. Barnes (2011), Simulation and observations of stratospheric aerosols from the 2009 Sarychev volcanic eruption, Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, D18211, doi:10.1029/2010JD015501.

2010

Kravitz, B., A. Robock, L. Oman, G. Stenchikov, and A. B. Marquardt (2010), Correction to “Sulfuric acid deposition from stratospheric geoengineering with sulfate aerosols,” Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, D16119, doi:10.1029/2010JD014579.

Jones, A., J. Haywood, O. Boucher, B. Kravitz, and A. Robock (2010), Geoengineering by stratospheric SO2 injection: Results from the Met Office HadGEM2 climate model and comparison with the Goddard Institute for Space Studies ModelE, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 10, 5999-6006, doi:10.5194/acp-10-5999-2010.

Kravitz, B., A. Robock, and A. Bourassa (2010), Negligible climatic effects from the 2008 Okmok and Kasatochi volcanic eruptions, Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, D00L05, doi:10.1029/2009JD013525.

Robock, A., M. Bunzl, B. Kravitz, and G. Stenchikov (2010), A test for geoengineering?, Science (Perspectives), 327(5965), 530-531, doi:10.1126/science.1186237.

2009

Kravitz, B., A. Robock, L. Oman, G. Stenchikov, and A. B. Marquardt (2009), Sulfuric acid deposition from stratospheric geoengineering with sulfate aerosols, Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, D14109, doi:10.1029/2009JD011918.

Robock, A., A. Marquardt, B. Kravitz, and G. Stenchikov (2009), Benefits, risks, and costs of stratospheric geoengineering, Geophysical Research Letters, 36, D19703, doi:10.1029/2009GL039209.

2007

Abhyankar, S. S. and B. Kravitz (2007), Two counterexamples in normalization, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 135(11), 3521-3523.


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