Data from: A framework for minimizing remote effects of regional climate interventions: Cooling the Great Barrier Reef without teleconnections

Climate interventions like Marine Cloud Brightening (MCB) have gained
attention for their potential to protect vulnerable marine ecosystems from
the worst impacts of climate change. Early modeling studies raised
concerns about potential harmful global side effects stemming from
regional interventions. Here we propose a modeling framework to evaluate
these risks based on using maximal deployment scenarios in a global
climate model to identify potential pathways of concern, combined with
more realistic large intervention levels. We demonstrate this framework by
modeling a cooling intervention over the Great Barrier Reef using the
Community Earth System Model (CESM2). We identify potential impacts on
tropical convection that could produce remote impacts, and show that
limiting intervention duration to deployment in the key season largely
eliminates these risks. Overall we illustrate that the local ecological
goals can be achieved at a level of cooling well below what poses a risk
of significant remote effects.