Articles | Volume 10, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-3359-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-3359-2017
Model description paper
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12 Sep 2017
Model description paper |  | 12 Sep 2017

The Sectional Stratospheric Sulfate Aerosol module (S3A-v1) within the LMDZ general circulation model: description and evaluation against stratospheric aerosol observations

Christoph Kleinschmitt, Olivier Boucher, Slimane Bekki, François Lott, and Ulrich Platt

Data sets

LMDZ: The LMD General Circulation Model LMDZ http://lmdz.lmd.jussieu.fr/

modipsl/libIGCM model IGCMG http://forge.ipsl.jussieu.fr/igcmg_doc

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Short summary
Stratospheric aerosols play an important role in the climate system by affecting the Earth's radiative budget. In this article we present the newly developed LMDZ-S3A model and assess its performance against observations in periods of low and high aerosol loading. The model may serve as a tool to study the climate impacts of volcanic eruptions, as well as the deliberate injection of aerosols into the stratosphere, which has been proposed as a method of geoengineering to abate global warming.