Data from: The overlooked role of the stratosphere under a solar constant reduction

Bednarz, Ewa; Visioni, Daniele

Data from: The overlooked role of the stratosphere under a solar constant reduction

dc.contributor.author	Bednarz, Ewa
dc.contributor.author	Visioni, Daniele
dc.date.accessioned	2022-05-11T21:21:40Z
dc.date.available	2022-05-11T21:21:40Z
dc.date.issued	2022-05-11
dc.description.abstract	Modelling experiments reducing surface temperatures via an idealized reduction of the solar constant have often been used as analogues for stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI), thereby implicitly assuming that solar dimming captures the essential physical mechanism through which SAI influences surface climate. While the omission of some important processes that otherwise operate under SAI was identified before, here we demonstrate that the imposed reduction in the incoming solar radiation also induces a different stratospheric dynamical response, manifested through a weakening of the polar vortex, that propagates from the stratosphere down to the troposphere. The coupled stratospheric-tropospheric response exerts a previously overlooked first-order influence on southern hemispheric surface climate in the solar dimming experiments, including on the position of the tropospheric jet and Hadley Circulation and thus, ultimately, precipitation patterns. This perturbation, opposite to that expected under SAI, highlights the need for caution when attributing responses in idealised experiments. In this dataset, we provide the model output used in the paper that demonstrate our findings.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	We would like to acknowledge high-performance computing support from Cheyenne (https://doi.org/10.5065/ D6RX99HX) provided by NCAR’s Computational and Information Systems Laboratory, sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Support was provided by the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future at Cornell University for EMB, DV and DGM; and by the National Science Foundation through agreement CBET-1818759 for DV and DGM. Support for BK was provided in part by the National Science Foundation through agreement CBET-1931641, the Indiana University Environmental Resilience Institute, and the Prepared for Environmental Change Grand Challenge initiative.	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.7298/b9ws-jj47
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1813/111263
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.relation.isreferencedby	Bednarz, E. M., Visioni, D., Banerjee, A., Braesicke, P., Kravitz, B., MacMartin, D. G. (2022) The overlooked role of the stratosphere under a solar constant reduction, GRL. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL098773
dc.relation.isreferencedbyuri	https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL098773
dc.rights	Attribution 4.0 International	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	*
dc.title	Data from: The overlooked role of the stratosphere under a solar constant reduction	en_US
dc.type	dataset	en_US