Fig. 6: Contributions of anthropogenic aerosol reduction and marine cloud brightening sea salt injection to future temperature and precipitation change. | Communications Earth & Environment

Fig. 6: Contributions of anthropogenic aerosol reduction and marine cloud brightening sea salt injection to future temperature and precipitation change.

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

Fig. 6: Contributions of anthropogenic aerosol reduction and marine cloud brightening sea salt injection to future temperature and precipitation change.

Spatial distribution of major contribution to the changes in (A) surface air temperature and (B) precipitation due to anthropogenic aerosol reductions or marine cloud brightening (MCB) sea salt aerosol injection in 2095 (average of 2091–2100) relative to 2025 (average of 2020–2030) in the SSP119_MCB experiment. The white hatched lines show the areas predominantly influenced by MCB with absolute contributions larger than 50%, while the other regions are predominated by anthropogenic aerosol reduction. Contributions of anthropogenic aerosol reductions (2050_AA/2100_AA), MCB (2050_MCB/2100_MCB) and both of them (2050/2100) to changes in surface air temperature and precipitation over land, ocean, and the entire globe are shown in (C) and (D), respectively.

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