Geoengineering as a design problem
Understanding the climate impacts of solar geoengineering is essential for evaluating its benefits and risks. Most previous simulations have prescribed a particular strategy and evaluated its modeled effects. Here we turn this approach around by first choosing example climate objectives and then des...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:ad942b5329464f6684bd63cf97e59938 2023-05-15T15:06:43+02:00 Geoengineering as a design problem B. Kravitz D. G. MacMartin H. Wang P. J. Rasch 2016-05-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-7-469-2016 https://doaj.org/article/ad942b5329464f6684bd63cf97e59938 EN eng Copernicus Publications http://www.earth-syst-dynam.net/7/469/2016/esd-7-469-2016.pdf https://doaj.org/toc/2190-4979 https://doaj.org/toc/2190-4987 2190-4979 2190-4987 doi:10.5194/esd-7-469-2016 https://doaj.org/article/ad942b5329464f6684bd63cf97e59938 Earth System Dynamics, Vol 7, Iss 2, Pp 469-497 (2016) Science Q Geology QE1-996.5 Dynamic and structural geology QE500-639.5 article 2016 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-7-469-2016 2022-12-31T02:23:13Z Understanding the climate impacts of solar geoengineering is essential for evaluating its benefits and risks. Most previous simulations have prescribed a particular strategy and evaluated its modeled effects. Here we turn this approach around by first choosing example climate objectives and then designing a strategy to meet those objectives in climate models. There are four essential criteria for designing a strategy: (i) an explicit specification of the objectives, (ii) defining what climate forcing agents to modify so the objectives are met, (iii) a method for managing uncertainties, and (iv) independent verification of the strategy in an evaluation model. We demonstrate this design perspective through two multi-objective examples. First, changes in Arctic temperature and the position of tropical precipitation due to CO 2 increases are offset by adjusting high-latitude insolation in each hemisphere independently. Second, three different latitude-dependent patterns of insolation are modified to offset CO 2 -induced changes in global mean temperature, interhemispheric temperature asymmetry, and the Equator-to-pole temperature gradient. In both examples, the "design" and "evaluation" models are state-of-the-art fully coupled atmosphere–ocean general circulation models. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Earth System Dynamics 7 2 469 497 |
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Understanding the climate impacts of solar geoengineering is essential for evaluating its benefits and risks. Most previous simulations have prescribed a particular strategy and evaluated its modeled effects. Here we turn this approach around by first choosing example climate objectives and then designing a strategy to meet those objectives in climate models. There are four essential criteria for designing a strategy: (i) an explicit specification of the objectives, (ii) defining what climate forcing agents to modify so the objectives are met, (iii) a method for managing uncertainties, and (iv) independent verification of the strategy in an evaluation model. We demonstrate this design perspective through two multi-objective examples. First, changes in Arctic temperature and the position of tropical precipitation due to CO 2 increases are offset by adjusting high-latitude insolation in each hemisphere independently. Second, three different latitude-dependent patterns of insolation are modified to offset CO 2 -induced changes in global mean temperature, interhemispheric temperature asymmetry, and the Equator-to-pole temperature gradient. In both examples, the "design" and "evaluation" models are state-of-the-art fully coupled atmosphere–ocean general circulation models. |
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