Title:

SO2 injection control and feedback simulations


Description:

The first simulations of stratospheric sulfate aerosol geoengineering using multiple injection locations to meet multiple simultaneous surface temperature objectives. Simulations were performed using CESM1(WACCM), a coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation model with fully interactive  stratospheric chemistry, dynamics (including an internally generated quasi-biennial oscillation), and a sophisticated treatment of sulfate aerosol formation, microphysical growth, and deposition. The objectives are defined as maintaining three temperature features at their 2020 levels against a background  of the RCP8.5 scenario over the period 2020-2099. These objectives are met using a feedback mechanism in which the rate of sulfur dioxide injection at  each of the four locations is adjusted independently every year of simulation (Kravitz et al., 2017).  Additional control simulations were performed for model evaluation purposes (Mills et al., 2017)


Metadata URL:

https://www.earthsystemgrid.org/dataset/id/42eee34e-6d81-11e7-af3a-00c0f03d5b7c.html