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SYDNEY, July 16 (Xinhua) – Australian oceanographer Daniel Harrison told Xinhua on Monday of his technology to increase cloud cover on the Great Barrier Reef to protect it from coral bleaching. "The lighting will be presented to 200 experts Tuesday during their meeting in the Australian state of Queensland to discuss the protection of the severely damaged reef.
The method involves spraying water from sea to help cloud formation, and his colleagues at the Marine Studies Institute of Sydney University and the National Marine Science Center of Southern Cross University in Coffs Harbor.
Harrison explains that in a cloud, each droplet needs a small speck of dust in the atmosphere for
"Above the earth, there is a lot of dust and everything … On the ocean they are in largely formed by sea salt. The idea is that we take the sea We will spray these nanoscale droplets and they will evaporate leaving the crystal of sea salt behind.
Specially designed nozzles spray a fine mist of 3 trillion droplets per second which is then mixed in the atmosphere and transported about one kilometer above the ocean.
Harrison said that the process will "clear up" the clouds above the reef so that when the clouds form they will reflect more light in the space
"If you shade them Corals, even if they are warmer, they will not whiten, "says Harrison.
This strategy aims to protect the reef from damage already caused by climate change, According to Harrison, pressures on the reef reach a critical point in history
"The amount of climate change that is now engaged, even though we could suddenly and drastically reduce emissions, means t Coral reefs cover less than 0.1 percent of the ocean surface, but up to 25 percent of marine life in spend at least part of it. "If we lose coral reefs, we do not really know what effect it will have on marine life in the ocean in general," said Harrison.
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