Sentences with phrase «followed large volcanic eruptions»

And a conclusion; «There is very high confidence that industrial era natural forcing is a small fraction of the anthropogenic forcing except for brief periods following large volcanic eruptions.»

There is very high confidence that models reproduce the general features of the global - scale annual mean surface temperature increase over the historical period, including the more rapid warming in the second half of the 20th century, and the cooling immediately following large volcanic eruptions...

Not exact matches

That is the headline finding of an international team, led by geochemists from Trinity College Dublin, who discovered that large impacts can be followed by intense, long - lived, and explosive volcanic eruptions.

There have been large volcanic eruptions that have contributed to short - term cooling of Earth from the SO2 that reaches the stratosphere, which is what happened following the Philippines Mount Pinatubo eruption in June 1991.

We find an unprecedented, long - lasting and spatially synchronized cooling following a cluster of large volcanic eruptions in 536, 540 and 547 AD (ref.

Indeed, one complicating issue is that many volcanic eruptions are shortly followed by large El Nino events (e.g. Emile - Geay argue strongly for such a response to the AD 1258 eruption).

If volcanic emissions were significant in a climate context, we'd see notable spikes in CO2 following some of the largest historical eruptions.

These forcing factors constitute additional elements that could drive variability in the future, particularly volcanic aerosols following large eruptions [59,60].

Following large explosive volcanic eruptions, precipitation decreases over much of the globe.

You can see in Figure 3 that some of these chemistry - climate models do capture this overshoot behaviour following the effects of large volcanic eruptions.

Large volcanic eruptions increase the number of small particles in the stratosphere that reflect sunlight, leading to short - term surface cooling lasting typically two to three years, followed by a slow recovery.