Fig. 3: Annual global mean temperature and precipitation response to anthropogenic aerosol reduction and marine cloud brightening. | Communications Earth & Environment

Fig. 3: Annual global mean temperature and precipitation response to anthropogenic aerosol reduction and marine cloud brightening.

From: Marine cloud brightening mitigates the warming induced by the aerosol reductions toward carbon neutrality

Fig. 3: Annual global mean temperature and precipitation response to anthropogenic aerosol reduction and marine cloud brightening.

Time series of global annual mean (A) surface air temperature and (B) precipitation during 2020–2100 due to the changes in anthropogenic aerosols following the carbon-neutral pathway in SSP119_AA (red lines) and the combined effects of changes in anthropogenic aerosols and marine cloud brightening (MCB) sea salt aerosol injection in SSP119_MCB (blue lines). In all experiments greenhouse gas concentrations are prescribed at the 2020 level to isolate the aerosol impacts. The thick lines show the corresponding ensemble mean, the thin lines show individual ensemble members and black dashed lines show the 2020–2025 average from SSP119_MCB experiment.

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