edu.ucar.opensky::articles:42107 UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact 2025-12-24T18:07:13.053339 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://n2t.net/ark:/85065/d7wm1jqt https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10688922 https Related Dataset #1 Data for "Africa's Climate Response to Marine Cloud Brightening Strategies is Highly Sensitive to Deployment Region" https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12596493 https Related Dataset #2 Data for "Africa's Climate Response to Marine Cloud Brightening Strategies is Highly Sensitive to Deployment Region" Africa's climate response to marine cloud brightening strategies is highly sensitive to deployment region 2024-09-01T00:00:00Z publication https://n2t.net/ark:/85065/d7wm1jqt https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JD041070 Odoulami, R. C. author Hirasawa, H. author K. Kouadio author T. D. Patel author Quagraine, Kwesi A. author Pinto, I. author Egbebiyi, T. S. author B. J. Abiodun author Lennard, C. author M. G. New author UCAR/NCAR - Library publisher Solar climate intervention refers to a group of methods for reducing climate risks associated with anthropogenic warming by reflecting sunlight. Marine cloud brightening (MCB), one such approach, proposes to inject sea&#8208;salt aerosol into one or more regional marine boundary layer to increase marine cloud reflectivity. Here, we assess the potential influence of various MCB experiments on Africa's climate using simulations from the Community Earth System Model (CESM2) with the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM6) as its atmospheric component. We analyzed four idealized MCB experiments under a medium&#8208;range background forcing scenario (SSP2&#8208;4.5), which brighten clouds over three subtropical ocean regions: (a) Northeast Pacific (MCB NEP ); (b) Southeast Pacific (MCB SEP ); (c) Southeast Atlantic (MCB SEA ); and (d) these three regions simultaneously (MCB ALL ). Our results suggest that the climate impacts of MCB in Africa are highly sensitive to the deployment region. MCB SEP would produce the strongest global cooling effect and thus could be the most effective in decreasing temperatures, increasing precipitation, and reducing the intensity and frequency of temperature and precipitation extremes across most parts of Africa, especially West Africa, in the future (2035&#8211;2054) compared to the historical climate (1995&#8211;2014). MCB in other regions produces less cooling and wetting despite similar radiative forcings. While the projected changes under MCB ALL are similar to those of MCB SEP , MCB NEP and MCB SEA could see more residual warming and induce a warmer future than under SSP2&#8208;4.5 in some regions across Africa. All MCB experiments are more effective in cooling maximum temperature and related extremes than minimum temperature and related extremes. UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact PDF Text theme Resource Type 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z publication <style type="text/css"></style><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;font-style:normal;" data-sheets-root="1">Copyright author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.</span> None eng geoscientificInformation