DKRZ Project

550: IMPLICC

active project

Principal investigator: Ulrike Niemeier

Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie (Community project)

Report 1/2009 to 12/2009
Report 1/2010 to 12/2010
Report 1/2011 to 12/2011
Report 1/2012 to 12/2012
Report 1/2013 to 12/2013
Report 1/2015 to 12/2015
Report 1/2016 to 12/2016
Report 1/2017 to 12/2017
Report 1/2018 to 12/2018
Report 1/2019 to 12/2019
Report 1/2020 to 12/2020
Report 1/2021 to 12/2021
Report 1/2022 to 12/2022
Report 1/2023 to 12/2023
Report 1/2024 to 12/2024

Publications

DOI: 10.5194/esd-15-405-2024, Laakso, A., Visioni, D., Niemeier, U., Tilmes, S., and Kokkola, H.: Dependency of the impacts of geoengineering on the stratospheric sulfur injection strategy – Part 2: How changes in the hydrological cycle depend on the injection rate and model used, Earth Syst. Dynam., 15, 405–427, https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-15-405-2024, 2024.
DOI: 10.1029/2023GL106482, Niemeier, U., Wallis, S., Timmreck, C., van Pham, T., & von Savigny, C. (2023). How the Hunga Tonga—Hunga Ha'apai water vapor cloud impacts its transport through the stratosphere: Dynamical and radiative effects. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL106482. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL106482
DOI: doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-9725-2023, Wrana, F., Niemeier, U., Thomason, L. W., Wallis, S., and von Savigny, C.: Stratospheric aerosol size reduction after volcanic eruptions, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 9725–9743, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-9725-2023, 2023.
DOI: https://library.wmo.int/idurl/4/42105, Haywood, J. and S. Tilmes (Lead Authors), F. Keutsch, U. Niemeier, A. Schmidt, D. Visioni, and P. Yu, Stratospheric Aerosol Injection and its Potential Effect on the Stratospheric Ozone Layer, Chapter 6 in Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2022, GAW Report No. 278, 509 pp., WMO, Geneva, 2022.
DOI: doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-5149-2023, Visioni, D., Kravitz, B., Robock, A., Tilmes, S., Haywood, J., Boucher, O., Lawrence, M., Irvine, P., Niemeier, U., Xia, L., Chiodo, G., Lennard, C., Watanabe, S., Moore, J. C., and Muri, H.: Opinion: The scientific and community-building roles of the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP) – past, present, and future, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 5149–5176, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-5149-2023, 2023.
DOI: doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-4557-2022, Tilmes, S., Visioni, D., Jones, A., Haywood, J., Séférian, R., Nabat, P., Boucher, O., Bednarz, E. M., and Niemeier, U.: Stratospheric ozone response to sulfate aerosol and solar dimming climate interventions based on the G6 Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP) simulations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 4557–4579, doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-4557-2022, 2022.
DOI: 10.5194/acp-22-2955-2022, Weisenstein, D. K., Visioni, D., Franke, H., Niemeier, U., Vattioni, S., Chiodo, G., Peter, T., and Keith, D. W.: An interactive stratospheric aerosol model intercomparison of solar geoengineering by stratospheric injection of SO2 or accumulation-mode sulfuric acid aerosols, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 2955–2973, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-2955-2022, 2022
DOI: 10.5194/acp-21-10039-2021,, Visioni, D., MacMartin, D. G., Kravitz, B., Boucher, O., Jones, A., Lurton, T., Martine, M., Mills, M. J., Nabat, P., Niemeier, U., Séférian, R., and Tilmes, S.: Identifying the sources of uncertainty in climate model simulations of solar radiation modification with the G6sulfur and G6solar Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP) simulations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 10039–10063, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-10039-2021, 2021.
DOI: doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-2999-2022, Jones, A., Haywood, J. M., Scaife, A. A., Boucher, O., Henry, M., Kravitz, B., Lurton, T., Nabat, P., Niemeier, U., Séférian, R., Tilmes, S., and Visioni, D.: The impact of stratospheric aerosol intervention on the North Atlantic and Quasi-Biennial Oscillations in the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP) G6sulfur experiment, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 2999–3016, doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-2999-2022, 2022.
DOI: 10.5194/acp-21-8615-2021, Franke, H., Niemeier, U., and Visioni, D.: Differences in the quasi-biennial oscillation response to stratospheric aerosol modification depending on injection strategy and species, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 8615–8635, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-8615-2021, 2021.
DOI: 10.5194/acp-21-10039-2021, Visioni, D., MacMartin, D. G., Kravitz, B., Boucher, O., Jones, A., Lurton, T., Martine, M., Mills, M. J., Nabat, P., Niemeier, U., Séférian, R., and Tilmes, S.: Identifying the sources of uncertainty in climate model simulations of solar radiation modification with the G6sulfur and G6solar Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP) simulations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 10039–10063, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-10039-2021, 2021.
DOI: doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-8975-2020, 2020, Niemeier, U., Richter, J. H., and Tilmes, S.: Differing responses of the quasi-biennial oscillation to artificial SO2 injections in two global models, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 8975–8987, doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-8975-2020, 2020.
Henning Franke, Ulrike Niemeier, and Daniele Visioni: Differences in the QBO response to stratospheric aerosol modification depending on injection strategy and species, ACPD, acp-2020-1104, submitted, 2020
DOI: doi.org/10.5194/acp-2020-732, Kravitz, B., MacMartin, D. G., Visioni, D., Boucher, O., Cole, J. N. S., Haywood, J., Jones, A., Lurton, T., Nabat, P., Niemeier, U., Robock, A., Séférian, R., and Tilmes, S.: Comparing different generations of idealized solar geoengineering simulations in the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP), Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2020-732, in review, 2020.
Kravitz Ben, Philip J. Rasch, Hailong Wang, Alan Robock, Corey Gabriel, Olivier Boucher, Jason N. S. Cole, Jim Haywood, Duoying Ji, Andy Jones, Andrew Lenton, John C. Moore, Helene Muri, Ulrike Niemeier, Steven Phipps, Hauke Schmidt, Shingo Watanabe, Shuting Yang, and Jin-Ho Yoon,The climate effects of increasing ocean albedo: An idealized representation of solar geoengineering. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 13097-13113, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-13097-2018, 2018
Camilla W. Stjern, Helene Muri, Lars Ahlm, Olivier Boucher, Jason N. S. Cole, Duoying Ji, Andy Jones, Jim Haywood, Ben Kravitz, Andrew Lenton, John C. Moore, Ulrike Niemeier, Steven J. Phipps, Hauke Schmidt, Shingo Watanabe, and Jón Egill Kristjánsson: Response to marine cloud brightening in a multi-model ensemble, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 621-634, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-621-2018
Muri Helene, Jerry Tjiputra, Odd Helge Otterå, Muralidhar Adakudlu, Siv K. Lauvset, Alf Grini, Michael Schulz, Ulrike Niemeier, and Jón Egill Kristjánsson: Climate reponse to aerosol geoengineering: a multi-method comparison, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0620.1
DOI: doi.org/10.1007/s10584-018-2362-4, Pfrommer, Tobias, Timo Goeschl, Alexander Proelss, Martin Carrier, Johannes Lenhard, Henriette Martin, Ulrike Niemeier, Hauke Schmidt: Establishing causation in climate litigation: admissibility and reliability, Climatic Change, 152: 67, doi.org/10.1007/s10584-018-2362-4, 2019
Niemeier, Ulrike and Hauke Schmidt: Changing transport processes in the stratosphere by radiative heating of sulfate aerosols, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 14871-14886, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-14871-2017, 2017 Camilla W. Stjern, Helene Muri, Lars Ahlm, Olivier Boucher, Jason N. S. Cole, Duoying Ji, Andy Jones, Jim Haywood, Ben Kravitz, Andrew Lenton, John C. Moore, Ulrike Niemeier, Steven J. Phipps, Hauke Schmidt, Shingo Watanabe, and Jón Egill Kristjánsson: Response to marine cloud brightening in a multi-model ensemble, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 621-634, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-621-2018, 2018 Lauren Marshall, Anja Schmidt, Matthew Toohey, Ken S. Carslaw, Graham W. Mann, Michael Sigl, Myriam Khodri, Claudia Timmreck, Davide Zanchettin, William T. Ball, Slimane Bekki, James S. A. Brooke, Sandip Dhomse, Colin Johnson, Jean-Francois Lamarque, Allegra N. LeGrande, Michael J. Mills, Ulrike Niemeier, James O. Pope, Virginie Poulain, Alan Robock, Eugene Rozanov, Andrea Stenke, Timofei Sukhodolov, Simone Tilmes, Kostas Tsigaridis, and Fiona Tummon: Multi-model comparison of the volcanic sulfate deposition from the 1815 eruption of Mt. Tambora, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 2307-2328, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-2307-2018, 2018 Helene Muri, Jerry Tjiputra, Odd Helge Otterå, Muralidhar Adakudlu, Siv K. Lauvset, Alf Grini, Michael Schulz, Ulrike Niemeier, and Jón Egill Kristjánsson: Climate reponse to aerosol geoengineering: a multi-method comparison, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0620.1
Niemeier and Timmreck (2015): What is the limit of climate engineering by stratospheric injection of SO2?, ACP,15(16), 9129-9141, doi:10.5194/acp-15-9129-2015.
Aaheim, A., Romstad, B., Wei, T., Kristjánsson, J., Muri, H., Niemeier, U. & Schmidt, H. (2015). An economic evaluation of solar radiation management . Science of the Total Environment, 532, 61-69 , doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.05.106
Niemeier, Ulrike, and Claudia Timmreck. "What is the limit of climate engineering by stratospheric injection of SO 2?." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 15.16 (2015): 9129-9141.
Schmidt, H. et al.: Solar irradiance reduction to counteract radiative forcing from a quadrupling of CO2: climate responses simulated by four earth system models, Earth Syst. Dynam., 3, 63-78, 2012.
Niemeier, U., H. Schmidt, C. Timmreck: The dependency of geoengineered sulfate aerosol on the emission strategy, Atmos. Sc. Let., 12 (2), 189-194, DOI: 10.1002/asl.304, 2011.
Niemeier, U., H. Schmidt, and C. Timmreck, The dependency of geoengineered sulfate aerosol on the emission strategy, Atmos. Sci. Let., in press, 2010,