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Tropical Pacific climate variability under solar geoengineering: impacts on ENSO extremes
Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial
College London,
London, United Kingdom
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research and Institute of
Geography, University of
Bern, Bern, Switzerland
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal
23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Peer J. Nowack
Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial
College London,
London, United Kingdom
Blackett Laboratory, Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London,
United Kingdom
Data Science Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich,
United Kingdom
Joanna D. Haigh
Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial
College London,
London, United Kingdom
Blackett Laboratory, Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London,
United Kingdom
Long Cao
School of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Luqman Atique
School of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Yves Plancherel
Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial
College London,
London, United Kingdom
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- Targeted marine cloud brightening weakens subsequent El Niño J. Wan et al. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adx3012
- Uncertainties and confidence in stratospheric aerosol injection modelling: a systematic literature review A. Määttänen et al. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfclm/kgae007
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- The importance of stratocumulus clouds for projected warming patterns and circulation changes P. Breul et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-11991-2025
- Impacts of three types of solar geoengineering on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation M. Xie et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-4581-2022
- Analyzing climate scenarios using dynamic mode decomposition with control N. Mankovich et al. https://doi.org/10.1017/eds.2025.8
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Solar geoengineering has been introduced to mitigate human-caused global warming by reflecting sunlight back into space. This research investigates the impact of solar geoengineering on the tropical Pacific climate. We find that solar geoengineering can compensate some of the greenhouse-induced changes in the tropical Pacific but not all. In particular, solar geoengineering will result in significant changes in rainfall, sea surface temperatures, and increased frequency of extreme ENSO events.
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