(My model suggests a lag
between volcanic forcing and temperature change of 1 or 2 years).
Not exact matches
One way is extrusion, in which magma erupts through
volcanic craters and cracks in the Earth's surface; the other is intrusion, whereby magma
forces itself
between or through existing formations of rock, without reaching the surface.
you'll see the multi-model mean based on models driven by
volcanic forcing is rejected at the 90 % confidence level for every year
between 1960 and 1998.
Based on the comparison
between reconstructions and simulations, there is high confidence that not only external orbital, solar and
volcanic forcing, but also internal variability, contributed substantially to the spatial pattern and timing of surface temperature changes
between the Medieval Climate Anomaly and the Little Ice Age (1450 to 1850).
The difference in response
between Zorita et al (2004) and Crowley (2000) is that the
forcings were significantly larger in ECHO - G (by a factor of 2 for solar, and with larger
volcanic forcing as well).
You write:» For the period from the Maunder minimum to a century later though (which is the period we looked at), there are no obvious discrepencies
between the solar +
volcanic forced changes and the reconstructions.»
The main difference
between projections A and B appears to have been the projected
volcanic forcings in ~ 1995 and ~ 2015.
Possible explanations for these results include the neglect of negative
forcings in many of the CMIP - 3 simulations of
forced climate change), omission of recent temporal changes in solar and
volcanic forcing [Wigley, 2010; Kaufmann et al., 2011; Vernier et al., 2011; Solomon et al., 2011],
forcing discontinuities at the «splice points»
between CMIP - 3 simulations of 20th and 21st century climate change [Arblaster et al., 2011], model response errors, residual observational errors [Mears et al., 2011b], and an unusual manifestation of natural internal variability in the observations (see Figure 7A).
«This is a consequence of variations in heat exchange
between the atmosphere and the oceans, and other decade - to - decade changes like variations in solar
forcing and the solar dimming effects of pollution and
volcanic eruptions,» BoM says.
This paper is in discussion at Climate of the Past and has some interesting things to say about Solar /
Volcanic forcing difference
between hemispheres and how some lags may be a tad longer than some might have suspected.
There is medium confidence that this difference
between models and observations is to a substantial degree caused by unpredictable climate variability, with possible contributions from inadequacies in the solar,
volcanic, and aerosol
forcings used by the models and, in some models, from too strong a response to increasing greenhouse - gas
forcing.
As discussed in some detail in LC15, sensitivity estimation using an energy budget difference method is sensitive to variations
between the base and final periods in
volcanic forcing, due to its very low apparent efficacy, so periods with matching volcanism should be used.
The big question arises to the relation
between solar
forcing energy to the Earth's global
volcanic activities.
Re ENSO, there is a significant (p = 0.016) negative relationship
between AR5
volcanic forcing and the MEI - extended index (extended forward to 2011) when regressing annually over 1871 - 2011, but the R2 is only 0.04 so it doesn't explain much ENSO variability.
The use of a 1850 — 59 baseline also greatly reduces the apparent large difference
between iRF and ERF
volcanic forcing changes.
However, the concept of efficacy implies that the value of lambda may vary
between forcings; it may be higher for
volcanic forcing than for most
forcings, because it has peculiar effects.
On
volcanic forcing: I am unsure how well
volcanic aerosols distribute across the stratosphere, and whether there's an imbalance
between SH and NH there.
The relative muting of eruptions
between this period and the eruption of Mount Agung in 1963/1964 thus implies a positive
forcing, although
volcanic emissions during this period are not well known (Neely III & Schmidt, 2016).
Volcanic activity can not explain the difference between DePreSys and NoAssim because both include forcing from volcanic aerosol in the s
Volcanic activity can not explain the difference
between DePreSys and NoAssim because both include
forcing from
volcanic aerosol in the s
volcanic aerosol in the same way.