Even after the eruption ceased, there were episodes of resuspended ash blowing off the glacier and nearby areas onto the ocean.
Not exact matches
After decades of dueling studies about whether it was an asteroid or volcanic
eruptions that did in the dinosaurs, it is apparent that the mineral - deposit evidence is indirect and open to interpretation,
even if the scientists advancing the various claims sound pretty sure of themselves.
On p217 he claims that while «Mt. Pinatubo... released 20 millions tonnes of sulphur dioxide» it also released «very large quantities of chlorofluorocarbons», citing Brasseur and Granier (1992) who don't say there were any CFCs in the
eruption, and
even on chlorine, actually say the opposite: «
after the
eruption of Mount Pinatubo, the input of chlorine to the stratosphere was probably small».
By Saturday
evening, local volcanologists increased the severity of the
eruption from phreatic (steam) to magmatic,
after fire and lava were spotted near the summit.
I would expect that
after an
eruption cloud has dispersed, that all you would find is the occassional particle,
even if all of the material was still up there.
Some longer - term effects may remain
after several consecutive
eruptions, but
even then, the 0.1 K cooling by volcanic
eruptions over the past 600 years (0.3 K modeled over the past 100 years, see fig. 1 on this page) seems rather high...
The researchers found that Mount Pinatubo's
eruption still kept much of the world dry,
even after taking into consideration the drying effects of El Niño an abnormal warming of surface ocean waters in the eastern tropical Pacific.
Webster, «I also note how you truncate the TSI data
after about 1950 - 1960,
even though there are some fairly big
eruptions Agung, El Chicon, Pinatubo.
I also note how you truncate the TSI data
after about 1950 - 1960,
even though there are some fairly big
eruptions Agung, El Chicon, Pinatubo.
From the paper: «The results also 1) reveal a significant level of coupling between ocean and land temperatures that remains
even after the effects of ENSO and volcanic
eruptions have been removed; 2) serve to highlight the improvements in the quality of the time series of global - mean land temperatures with the increase in the areal coverage of the station network from 1951 onward; and 3) yield a residual time series in which the signature of anthropogenically induced global warming is more prominent.»