Articles | Volume 21, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-6985-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-6985-2021
Research article
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07 May 2021
Research article |  | 07 May 2021

Robust winter warming over Eurasia under stratospheric sulfate geoengineering – the role of stratospheric dynamics

Antara Banerjee, Amy H. Butler, Lorenzo M. Polvani, Alan Robock, Isla R. Simpson, and Lantao Sun

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We find that simulated stratospheric sulfate geoengineering could lead to warmer Eurasian winters alongside a drier Mediterranean and wetting to the north. These effects occur due to the strengthening of the Northern Hemisphere stratospheric polar vortex, which shifts the North Atlantic Oscillation to a more positive phase. We find the effects in our simulations to be much more significant than the wintertime effects of large tropical volcanic eruptions which inject much less sulfate aerosol.
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