PNNL

Abstract

Previous modeling studies indicate that even though marine cloud brightening under a susceptibility-based strategy iseff ective in reducing the global average surface temperature, it triggers a La Niña-like sea-surface temperature response with cooling mostly confi ned within lower latitudes. Here we explore a diff erent cloud seeding strategy involving seeding of regions with low susceptibility, primarily over the ocean in midlatitudes during the winter. Simulations with the Community Earth System Model, version 2 reveal that because the regional forcing is weaker and more widespread, cooling is more evenly distributed over the globe. This new strategy also does not result in the La Niña-like state seen in the other strategies.