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Scant evidence for a volcanically forced winter warming over Eurasia following the Krakatau eruption of August 1883
Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, NY
10027, USA
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY
10027, USA
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, USA
Suzana J. Camargo
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY
10027, USA
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, USA
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On the basis of questionable early studies, it is widely believed that low-latitude volcanic eruptions cause winter warming over Eurasia. However, we here demonstrate that the winter warming over Eurasia following the 1883 Krakatau eruption was unremarkable and, in all likelihood, unrelated to that eruption. Confirming similar findings for the 1991 Pinatubo eruption, the new research demonstrates that no detectable Eurasian winter warming is to be expected after eruptions of similar magnitude.
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