Timing and climate forcing of volcanic eruptions for the past 2,500 years

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F86652079%3A_____%2F15%3A00473139" target="_blank" >RIV/86652079:_____/15:00473139 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature14565" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature14565</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature14565" target="_blank" >10.1038/nature14565</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Timing and climate forcing of volcanic eruptions for the past 2,500 years

Original language description

Volcanic eruptions contribute to climate variability, but quantifying these contributions has been limited by inconsistencies in the timing of atmospheric volcanic aerosol loading determined from ice cores and subsequent cooling from climate proxies such as tree rings. Here we resolve these inconsistencies and show that large eruptions in the tropics and high latitudes were primary drivers of interannual-to-decadal temperature variability in the Northern Hemisphere during the past 2,500 years. Our results are based on new records of atmospheric aerosol loading developed from high-resolution, multi-parameter measurements from an array of Greenland and Antarctic ice cores as well as distinctive age markers to constrain chronologies. Overall, cooling was proportional to the magnitude of volcanic forcing and persisted for up to ten years after some of the largest eruptive episodes. Our revised timescale more firmly implicates volcanic eruptions as catalysts in the major sixth-century pandemics, famines, and socioeconomic disruptions in Eurasia and Mesoamerica while allowing multi-millennium quantification of climate response to volcanic forcing.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EH - Ecology - communities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Nature

ISSN

0028-0836

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

523

Issue of the periodical within the volume

7562

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

543-549

UT code for WoS article

000358655200035

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84938497374