CESM1(WACCM) Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering Large Ensemble Project
@article{Tilmes2018CESM1WACCMSA, title={CESM1(WACCM) Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering Large Ensemble Project}, author={Simone Tilmes and Jadwiga H. Richter and Ben Kravitz and Douglas G. MacMartin and Michael J. Mills and Isla Ruth Simpson and Anne S. Glanville and John T. Fasullo and Adam S. Phillips and Jean‐François Lamarque and Joseph J. Tribbia and Jim Edwards and Sheri A. Mickelson and Siddhartha S. Ghosh}, journal={Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society}, year={2018} }
This paper describes the Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering Large Ensemble (GLENS) project, which promotes the use of a unique model dataset, performed with the Community Earth System Model, with the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model as its atmospheric component [CESM1(WACCM)], to investigate global and regional impacts of geoengineering. The performed simulations were designed to achieve multiple simultaneous climate goals, by strategically placing sulfur injections at four different…
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