Lili Xia
Affiliation: Rutgers University
Title: Co-Director of the Rutgers Impact Studies of Climate Intervention (RISCI) lab
Country: USA
Lili Xia is co-director of the Rutgers Impact Studies of Climate Intervention (RISCI) lab. She received her Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science at Rutgers in 2014, and has been working as a postdoc and now Research Associate in the RISCI lab for her entire time at Rutgers. She is interested in climate impacts, particularly the interactions between vegetation and climate changes. Her research focus on two future climate scenarios, stratospheric aerosol intervention and nuclear war.
Content Reviewed:
Could SAI Replace the Lost Cooling Effect From Cleaning Up Air Pollution?
As well as driving climate change, burning fossil fuels creates toxic air pollution, which kills millions of people each year...
6 min read
Would Stratospheric Aerosol Injection Add to Acid Rain?
The sulphate particles that could be used for stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) would add to acid rain. With sulphate pol...
4 min read
Will Climate Change Become Unbearable When the World Reaches 1.5°C or 2°C?
In 2015, almost all countries agreed to try to limit warming to 1.5°C to 2°C above the pre-industrial average. However, the...
6 min read
Surface Albedo Modification
Surface albedo modification describes a set of ideas to produce a cooling effect by increasing the amount of light reflected ...
7 min read
Content Featured In:
News Roundup: Live from the American Geophysical Union
We’re joined by SRM researchers Lili Xia, Chris Lennard, and Tyler Felgenhauer at the American Geophysical Union conference to discuss the latest SRM news.
30 mins
What Is SRM? Who Is Studying It, and Why?
Hear from SRM researchers around the world about why they got into this field.
22 mins