Sentences with phrase «recent large volcanic eruptions»

For example, some scientists have studied the climate response to recent large volcanic eruptions, which can have a measurable impact on global temperatures.

Climate scientists have also attempted to estimate climate sensitivity based on the response to recent large volcanic eruptions, such as Mount Pinatubo in 1991.

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Here we are not dealing with large volcanic eruptions of the size of Pinatubo of Mount St. Helens, here we are talking about extreme events: The Toba caldera in the Sumatra subduction zone in Indonesia originated from one of the largest volcanic eruption in recent Earth history, about 74,000 years ago.

She will then focus on recent results her group obtained with regard to extremely large volcanic eruptions on Jupiter's moon Io, and giant storms on Uranus using Keck Observatory.

In fact, it is possible to have some frost rings without any evidence of explosive volcanism, presumably occurring due to extremes in local weather, but, as shown above, they do seem to record large volcanic eruptions in recent times very well indeed.

There were no consecutive large volcanic eruptions in the 20th century, and none that could have caused the recent slowdown in the rate of global warming.