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On Saturday, February 9, 2019 at 5:05:24 PM UTC-7, Andrew Lockley wrote: > > > https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-019-02387-9#citeas > > Quantifying the effects of solar geoengineering on vegetation > Authors > Authors and affiliations > Katherine DagonEmail authorDaniel P. Schrag > 1. > 2. > Article > First Online: 09 February 2019 > 5 > Shares > Abstract > Climate change will have significant impacts on vegetation and > biodiversity. Solar geoengineering has potential to reduce the climate > effects of greenhouse gas emissions through albedo modification, yet more > research is needed to better understand how these techniques might impact > terrestrial ecosystems. Here, we utilize the fully coupled version of the > Community Earth System Model to run transient solar geoengineering > simulations designed to stabilize radiative forcing starting mid-century, > relative to the Representative Concentration Pathway 6 (RCP6) scenario. > Using results from 100-year simulations, we analyze model output through > the lens of ecosystem-relevant metrics. We find that solar geoengineering > improves the conservation outlook under climate change, but there are still > potential impacts on terrestrial vegetation. We show that rates of warming > and the climate velocity of temperature are minimized globally under solar > geoengineering by the end of the century, while trends persist over land in > the Northern Hemisphere. Moisture is an additional constraint on > vegetation, and in the tropics the climate velocity of precipitation > dominates over that of temperature. Shifts in the amplitude of temperature > and precipitation seasonal cycles have implications for vegetation > phenology. Different metrics for vegetation productivity also show > decreases under solar geoengineering relative to RCP6, but could be related > to the model parameterization of nutrient cycling. The coupling of water > and carbon cycles is found to be an important mechanism for understanding > changes in ecosystems under solar geoengineering. > > Keywords > Climate change Solar geoengineering Climate modeling Terrestrial > ecosystems > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
