Optimizing Geoengineering Interventions Using Differentiable Climate Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.12528v1
• Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 07:34:03 GMT
• Title: Optimizing Geoengineering Interventions Using Differentiable Climate Models
• Abstract summary: We exploit differentiable atmospheric models to demonstrate a novel geoengineering control strategy.<n>The learned strategy removes $92.3 pm 0.4%$ of the realized land warming across a ten-member ensemble of two-year rollouts.<n>If we use the spatial pattern of land temperature as the optimization objective, the distributions of precipitation, evaporation, and specific humidity over land are restored as well.
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• Abstract: The deployment of a geoengineering program to cool Earth's climate may be imminent. It is crucial that tools be developed to ensure that such a program would achieve its objectives while minimizing disruption. Here we exploit recently developed differentiable atmospheric models to demonstrate a novel geoengineering control strategy. In the differentiable primitive-equation atmospheric model JAX-GCM we impose a uniform $+4$\,K ocean warming and ask what pattern of sea-surface temperature cooling -- in five ocean-masked zonal bands of prescribed SST forcings whose amplitudes are free -- returns land near-surface air temperature closest to the model's own unwarmed climatology. This idealized set-up represents a cooling pattern that could be delivered physically either by marine cloud brightening or stratospheric aerosol injection. Gradients through chaotic dynamics decorrelate from the true sensitivity beyond the Lyapunov horizon, so we optimize greedily over segments of 8 to 14 days, following receding-horizon control. The learned strategy removes $92.3 \pm 0.4\%$ of the realized land warming across a ten-member ensemble of two-year rollouts, and a three-year run sustains it. If we use the spatial pattern of land temperature as the optimization objective, the distributions of precipitation, evaporation, and specific humidity over land are restored as well, even though they are not included in the objective function. The learned strategy from JAX-GCM replayed in the AI emulators LUCIE and NeuralGCM without re-optimization is successful, suggesting robustness. These promising results demonstrate a strategy for designing optimal climate interventions that can be applied broadly for geoengineering scenarios under consideration.

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