Articles | Volume 18, issue 22
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-8679-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-8679-2025
Development and technical paper
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18 Nov 2025
Development and technical paper |  | 18 Nov 2025

A computationally efficient method to model similar and alternate stratospheric aerosol injection experiments using prescribed aerosols in a lower-complexity version of the same model: a case study using CESM(CAM) and CESM(WACCM)

Jasper de Jong, Daniel Pflüger, Simone Lingbeek, Claudia E. Wieners, Michiel L. J. Baatsen, and René R. Wijngaard

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JdeJong96/CESM-CAM_SAI Jasper de Jong et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17265544

A computationally efficient method to model Stratospheric Aerosol Injection experiments Jasper de Jong et al. https://doi.org/10.24416/UU01-F7SGNO

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Short summary
Injection of reflective sulfate aerosols high in the atmosphere is a proposed method to mitigate global warming. Climate simulations with injection are more expensive than standard future projections. We propose a method that dynamically scales the forcing fields based on pre-existing full-complexity data. This opens up possibilities for ensemble generation, new scenarios and higher resolution runs. We show that our method works for multiple model versions, injection scenarios and resolutions.
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