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About Cloud Brightening Fleet

Marine cloud brightening seeds stratocumulus decks with sub-micron sea salt so the clouds hold more, smaller droplets and throw more sunlight back to space. The proof already exists in orbit: ship tracks, bright white lines scratched by exhaust across a flat grey cloud field.

This system takes that scene literally. The page is the deck — a cool neutral grey. White is not decoration, it is brightening. Dark is water read through the gaps. Everything else is instrument chrome, hairline rules and mono telemetry.

Learn more about the Cloud Brightening Fleet style

Origin
Global — eastern Pacific and Aleutian stratocumulus decks; Alameda, California; Southern Great Barrier Reef
Era
1990 (Latham's Nature proposal) through the 2020s outdoor-experiment era
Key figures
John Latham · Stephen Salter · Sarah Doherty · Robert Wood · Daniel Harrison
Movements
Solar radiation management research · Satellite cloud remote sensing · NOAA/NASA earth-observation publishing

Cloud Brightening Fleet design spec

Colors

Background
Surface
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Secondary
Accent
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Typography

Public SansHeadings
ArchivoBody
IBM Plex MonoMono
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