Geoengineering: Impact of Marine Cloud Brightening Control on the Extreme Temperature Change over East Asia
Open Access
- 10 December 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by MDPI AG in Atmosphere
- Vol. 11 (12), 1345
- https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11121345
Abstract
We investigated the effect of artificial marine cloud brightening on extreme temperatures over East Asia. We used simulation data from five global climate models which have conducted the GeoMIP G4cdnc experiment. G4cdnc was designed to simulate an increase in the cloud droplet number concentration of the global marine lower clouds by 50% under the greenhouse gas forcing of the RCP4.5 scenario. G4cdnc decreased the net radiative forcing in the top of the atmosphere more over the ocean, alleviating the rise in mean temperature under RCP4.5 forcing. For extreme temperatures, G4cdnc reduced both the monthly minimum of daily minimum temperature (TNn) and monthly maximum of daily maximum temperature (TXx). The response of TNn was higher than that of TXx, especially in the winter, over the Sea of Okhotsk and the interior of the continent. This spatial heterogeneity and seasonality of the response were associated with sea ice–albedo and snow–albedo feedbacks. We also calculated the efficacy of warming mitigation as a measure of the relative effect of geoengineering. The efficacy for TXx was higher than that for TNn, opposite to the absolute effect. After the termination of geoengineering, both TNn and TXx tended to rapidly revert to their trend under the RCP4.5 forcing.This publication has 51 references indexed in Scilit:
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