Fig. 1: Simulated changes of Antarctic climate conditions in response to GHG emissions and solar climate intervention scenarios. | Nature Climate Change

Fig. 1: Simulated changes of Antarctic climate conditions in response to GHG emissions and solar climate intervention scenarios.

From: Climate intervention on a high-emissions pathway could delay but not prevent West Antarctic Ice Sheet demise

Fig. 1

a, Antarctic surface air temperature anomalies for RCP 2.6, RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5 scenarios as well as for the stratospheric aerosol injection scenarios SRM85-20, -40, -60 and SRM85-80 (dashed lines). SRM45 temperatures (year 2300 and beyond) are depicted by stars next to time series. b, Same as a but for circumantarctic (ice front) Southern Ocean subsurface (400–700 m) temperature anomalies. c, Antarctic ice-shelf surface mass-balance anomalies. Note the shift in the time axis at the year 2300 in all panels and the shift in y axis in panel c at –150 Gt. All values are relative to the historical period 1995–2014 and 20 yr running average. From year 2300 onwards, the forcing from 2270 to 2300 is continuously repeated.

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