Abstract
Feedback control algorithms, an important tool in climate intervention
strategy design, are widely used in stratospheric aerosol injection
(SAI) simulations but have never been implemented for marine cloud
brightening (MCB). Using the Community Earth System Model (CESM2), we
present the first simulations of feedback control-regulated MCB. Our
controller, which regulates global mean temperature (T0) by varying the
area of MCB coverage over time, successfully maintains the desired T0 of
1.5°C above the preindustrial in the SSP2-4.5 global warming scenario
comparably to a contemporary SAI controller. After 35 years of
intervention, the surface temperature response when MCB has been
gradually ramped up over time in this way is similar to a constant
intervention with similar global mean temperature (including strong
regional heterogeneity), but system memory may cause differences in
Arctic sea ice and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
(AMOC).