Sentences with phrase «moderate volcanic eruptions»

The results suggested that moderate volcanic eruptions were behind the increases of aerosols in the atmosphere.

Neely (2013 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/grl.50263/abstract): «Comparison of the model results to observations reveals that moderate volcanic eruptions, rather than anthropogenic influences, are the primary source of the observed increases in stratospheric aerosol.»

Not exact matches

Alerted to the volcanic eruption by NASA's Rapid Response program for the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments, Garvin and his colleagues directed satellites to observe the island as soon as the eruption ended.

Volcanic eruptions, even small and moderate ones, might counter some of the effects of global warming, new research suggests.

Scenario B has continued moderate increase in the rate of GHG emissions and includes three large volcanic eruptions sprinkled through the 50 - year period after 1988, one of them in the 1990s.

But what concerns Professor Haywood and others is not the random nature of volcanic eruption — difficult to predict and impossible to prevent — but the possibility of deliberate injection of aerosols into the stratosphere to moderate global warming.