Sentences with phrase «icelandic volcano eruption»

But a key difference is that CO2 lingers for decades while warming from contrails quickly ends if flights are grounded, such as after the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, or in Europe after last year's Icelandic volcano eruption.

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Two particular stories that come to mind are when once I got stuck without money, card or phone in Johannesburg during the Icelandic volcano eruption that paralysed the flights.

I got stuck cos of the Icelandic volcano eruption last year at Stansted airport for a week without clothes and money!

Not exact matches

After a week of rumbling, Iceland's Bárðarbunga volcano began erupting yesterday, say scientists at the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) in Reykjavik — although the eruption remained entirely under the thick ice covering the volcano.

Tambora merits an Index score of 7, making the eruption approximately one thousand times more powerful than the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull, which disrupted trans - Atlantic air travel in 2010 but rated only a 4; one hundred times stronger than Mount St. Helens (a 5); and ten times more powerful than Krakatoa (a 6).

A year after the Eyjafjallajökull eruption paralyzed air travel in much of Europe, another Icelandic volcano blew its top.

So the eruption in 2010 of an Icelandic volcano gave scientists a perfect opportunity to see how much the cataclysm helped the plankton by showering them with unexpected clouds of iron.

Tree rings used to pinpoint eruption of Icelandic volcano to half a century before human settlement An international group...

They have found evidence of the eruptions of the Icelandic volcanoes Laki and Grimsvötn in 1783 and 1906, Soviet nuclear tests in the 1950s and 1960s and the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.

A paper written by Benjamin Franklin in 1783 blamed the unusually cool summer of 1783 on volcanic dust coming from Iceland, where the eruption of Laki volcano had released enormous amounts of sulfur dioxide, resulting in the death of much of the island's livestock and a catastrophic famine which killed a quarter of the Icelandic population.

For instance, a series of stupendous eruptions from the Icelandic volcano Eldgjá from A.D. 939 to 940 led to one of the coldest summers the Northern Hemisphere had experienced in 1,500 years, Live Science previously reported.

Icelandic volcanoes are about 30 degrees away from the pole, too far except for the strongest eruptions, to be swept - up (in suficient enough concentration) into the stratosphere by polar vortex, hence the ozone layer there is more stable, despite fact there was more CFC around in the Nth than Sth hemisphere.

For example, the accumulated effect of volcanic eruptions during the past decade, including the Icelandic volcano with the impossible name, Eyjafjallajökull, may have had a greater cooling effect on the earth's surface than has been accounted for in most climate model simulations.

We've seen from the historical record that volcano eruptions have contributed to global cooling (also inspiring some harebrained and dangerous ideas to geoengineer climate cooling), but it remains to be seen if this Icelandic fountain of fire will make the next winter a chillier one.

Some of the mishandling in 2010 may well be due to the travel problems that resulted from a number of natural disasters, including the eruption of an Icelandic volcano and the resulting ash clouds that grounded planes and stranded many travelers.