Sentences with phrase «of volcanic eruptions»

From 1963 to 1991, there were a series of volcanic eruptions which caused cooling and hence contraction of the upper ocean.

The proposals mimic the aftermath of volcanic eruptions, when aerosols are naturally injected into the atmosphere.

She says the entire site was buried suddenly, possibly the result of a volcanic eruption or a flash flood.

Try to stay patient, even in the face of a volcanic eruption of emotion.

Whilst this is an important step towards reliable prediction of volcanic eruptions, a number of challenges still exist.

Or maybe they are afraid of the amount of CO2 emitted by the oceans because of volcanic eruptions.

The team also showed for the first time that this recovery has slowed somewhat at times, due to the effects of volcanic eruptions from year to year.

The two spikes around 1983 and 1993 were a consequence of volcanic eruptions injecting material into the stratosphere resulting in short term warming of the lower stratosphere.

For the particularly worry - prone, note that most policies will pay out in the event of a volcanic eruption.

... in the absence of volcanic eruptions, global temperature is predicted to continue to rise, with each year from 2013 onwards having a 50 % chance of exceeding the current observed record.

In those last 10,000 years, many species that had survived the first phase of volcanic eruptions were finally done in.

For more information, click the link to read our guide on the peril of volcanic eruption.

Where better to store some of that energy when there's a surplus than in the rocky residue of a volcanic eruption?

Second, the paper clearly finds there would be an acceleration in the satellite record if not for the effect of a volcanic eruption close to the start of the satellite record.

The effects of the volcanic eruption that took place in 1963 are still evident along the lower slopes.

Most homeowner policies cover direct damages that result from volcanic eruptions, but do not cover floods or earthquakes that occur as a separate event, or in the aftermath of a volcanic eruption.

New findings published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) by Desert Research Institute (DRI) Professor Joseph R. McConnell, Ph.D., and colleagues document a 192 - year series of volcanic eruptions in Antarctica that coincided with accelerated deglaciation about 17,700 years ago.

The average number of volcanic eruptions per year should be about 50 to 60; as of December 5, 2013, we already at 83.

Callendar «was lucky» to detect warming in the first place, says Ed Hawkins, a climate scientist at the University of Reading in the U.K. Unbeknownst to Callendar, the period from 1880 to 1935 «probably had a bit of extra warming» unrelated to carbon dioxide, as the world's climate rebounded from a cooling spate of volcanic eruptions.

The research, published in the journal Scientific Reports, suggests that signals associated with tidal cycles could potentially provide advanced warning of certain types of volcanic eruptions.

Operational units of FMI apply Arctic Space Centre's data and products for supporting sea ice navigation in the Baltic, air control e.g. in cases of volcanic eruptions, flood monitoring in spring time, and space weather services during solar storms.

The real possibility of a volcanic eruption in Auckland for example could slash values over night.

What is even more exciting is that scientists, using 14C dating and tree rings, have found evidence of a volcanic eruption from the Aegean island of Thera, which recently has been dated to 1628 B.C. (15).

In a bid to restore lost fish abundance, the Haida Salmon Restoration Corp. (HSRC) undertook to mimic the effects of a volcanic eruption by fertilizing the ocean with iron.

Multiple ash layers in Brooks Camp's soil reveal a long record of volcanic eruptions on the Alaska Peninsula.

The ruins of the ancient Roman cities Pompeii and Herculaneum, and the perfectly preserved shapes of inhabitants who perished in the ashes, offer an unequivocal expression of the destructive power of volcanic eruptions.

«Ash from dinosaur - era volcanoes linked with shale oil, gas: Shale oil, gas deposits accompany ash layers from thousands of volcanic eruptions.»

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.

But new research shows that the MWP, as it is affectionately known in acronym - happy science circles, as well as the «Little Ice Age» that almost immediately followed it (and spelled doom for the Greenland Norse) were likely the result of fluctuations in the sun's strength and the frequency of volcanic eruptions, among other natural causes.

So the report notes that the current «pause» in new global average temperature records since 1998 — a year that saw the second strongest El Nino on record and shattered warming records — does not reflect the long - term trend and may be explained by the oceans absorbing the majority of the extra heat trapped by greenhouse gases as well as the cooling contributions of volcanic eruptions.

The favored hypothesis can not explain the string of volcanic eruptions since those first flood basalts, including the formation of Yellowstone's caldera, which happened only 2.1 million years ago.

Checking the Volcanic Explosivity Index (Wikipedia) for the 1980 - 2000 and 2000 - 2014 periods we find while there has been a swarm of volcanic eruptions since 2000 they have been relatively small; all 4 or below on the log scale.

The team hopes that monitoring Io's surface annually will reveal the style of volcanic eruptions on the moon, constrain the composition of the magma, and accurately map the spatial distribution of the heat flow and potential variations over time.

The direct cause is assumed to be a long series of volcanic eruptions forming a huge region of rock known as the Siberian Traps.

With a dramatic and desolate beauty borne of volcanic eruptions spewing over 4 - 5 million years ago, these islands harbor some of the most unique species in the world.

Our results show that repeated clusters of volcanic eruptions can induce a net negative radiative forcing that results in a centennial and global scale cooling trend via a decline in mixed - layer oceanic heat content.

Measurements show that CO2 appears to be building up in the lake at about 5 million cubic metres a year, he says, while no evidence has been found of a volcanic eruption.

That could be significant for life, because the cycling of elements into Earth's crust and out of volcanic eruptions helps keep our planet habitable by stabilizing atmospheric temperature.