1/5 How to improve models used for solar geoengineering?
New @AGU_Eos paper by the steering committee of the Geoengineering Modeling Consortium (GMRC) What's GMRC? We are a science community consortia anchored at NCAR
eos.org/science-update…
New @AGU_Eos paper by the steering committee of the Geoengineering Modeling Consortium (GMRC) What's GMRC? We are a science community consortia anchored at NCAR
eos.org/science-update…
2/5 GMRC aims to identify weaknesses in geophysical models used for solar geoengineering and then develop collaborative efforts to improve the models.
Our next event (May 5th) is on the NAS report that will be released Thursday
cgd.ucar.edu/projects/gmrc/
Our next event (May 5th) is on the NAS report that will be released Thursday
cgd.ucar.edu/projects/gmrc/
3/5 PiG in the GCM? An example, of one of model improvements I happen to be working on. Aerosols or aerosol precursors would most plausibly be released into the stratosphere by aircraft. Observations show that stratospheric plumes are coherent for >10 days.
4/5 Models now assume all material is instantly mixed into the model grid-cell missing the plume processing that will determine particle size distribution keith.seas.harvard.edu/files/tkg/file…
5/5 This artificial mixing problem can be addressed by using a Plume-in-Grid model (PiG). E.g. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10….
My student Hongwei Sun is working to build a PiG into GEOS-chem. Ultimately models for stratospheric solar geo might use a PiG in a GCM.
My student Hongwei Sun is working to build a PiG into GEOS-chem. Ultimately models for stratospheric solar geo might use a PiG in a GCM.
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