Affiliation:
1. Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Princeton University NJ Princeton USA
2. Lamont‐Doherty Earth Observatory Columbia University NY Palisades USA
3. NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory NJ Princeton USA
4. Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Boston College MA Boston USA
Abstract
AbstractMarine cloud brightening is a proposal to counteract global warming by increasing sea salt aerosol emissions. In theory, this increases the cloud droplet number concentration of subtropical marine stratocumulus decks, increasing cloud brightness and longevity. However, this theoretical progression remains uncertain in coupled climate models, especially the response of liquid water path and cloud fraction to aerosol seeding. We use the GFDL CM4 climate model to simulate marine cloud brightening following the published G4sea‐salt protocol, in which sea salt aerosol emissions are uniformly increased over 30 S–30 N in addition to standard forcings from a SSP2‐4.5 future warming scenario. The perturbed radiative and cloud responses are temporally stable though spatially heterogeneous, and direct scattering by the added sea salt predominates over changes to cloud reflectance. In fact, feedbacks in the coupled simulation lead to a net warming, rather than cooling, response by clouds.
Funder
NOAA Climate Program Office
NOAA Research
Publisher
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences,Geophysics
Cited by
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