Hi all, Karami et al (2020) was published in Geophysical Research Letters today: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020GL086954. It is the third paper to come from SRMGI’s DECIMALS Fund and, at least as far as I know, the first SRM modelling paper to come from the Middle East / North Africa region (MENA). The team – Dr Khalil Karami and Vahid Mousavi – is based in Iran and is the third DECIMALS team to publish research after South Africa and Benin.
The paper explores how SRM could affect storm track changes in the MENA region. Analysing the GLENS data, the study finds that SRM could partially offset the poleward shift of the storm‐tracks due to global warming. Therefore, in the GLENS deployment scenario, sun-dimming is projected to reduce some water stresses in the MENA region. However, the authors find that using SRM to reduce the impacts of global warming might cause some side effects not present in the warming scenarios and they emphasise the importance of ambitious emissions cuts. Not only is this the first SRM modelling paper from the MENA region, it was also produced under extraordinary circumstances. Due to the American economic embargo on Iran, SRMGI was unable to pay Khalil or Vahid’s salary money into Iran and wasn’t able to buy them computer equipment to help them with their modelling. They took the decision to carry on with their DECIMALS research anyway, making this paper an even more impressive achievement. We will publish and interview with Khalil soon on srmgi.org. Congratulations to Khalil and Vahid, then, and thanks also to their research collaborators Helene Muri and Simone Tilmes. Next up for the Iran team is a paper on SRM and dust storms in the MENA region, so watch this space. Andy -- 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 geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/199f3ec0-be2a-4651-9332-58a11fa906d8o%40googlegroups.com.
