Resources on SRM Science for New Researchers

There is a recognized urgent need for broadening and coordinating access to scientific information regarding Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) to support evidence-based decision making. To build such capacity, the research community has expressed the need for accessible and searchable metadata about modeling studies of SRM and associated impacts.

For this purpose, we have put together a prototype for a Repository, which is an extensive collection of peer-reviewed articles of Earth System Models (ESMs) simulations whose outputs have been used by impacts studies, and impacts studies that have used ESM data outputs. In its current version, the repository offers a list of peer-reviewed journal articles, with specific meta-data such as specific information on climate models, scenarios or impact targets used to simulate SRM, in order to enable users with the ability to identify the most relevant studies to their own research. The repository is accompanied by a Guide targeted at new entrants to the field, such as graduate students and established researchers conducting their first SRM studies. The Guide offers a narrative description of ESM experiments available for SRM impacts research today and reviews current limitations, uncertainties, and gaps that remain unaddressed. These resources will be freely available online.