Sentences with phrase «volcanic dust on»

Hubert Lamb, founder of the CRU, identified a major part of the aerosol problem in 1970 when he created the Dust Veil Index (DVI) designed to quantify the impact of volcanic dust on the atmospheric energy balance.

Bradley, R.S. and England, J., 1978: Influence of volcanic dust on glacier mass balance at high latitudes.

Not exact matches

Is there any good data on the fate on embedded contaminants in the ice (dust, volcanic ash, black carbon etc.)?

And one less dust as compared to volcanic eruption at Earth / Sun L - 1 to get more cooling on Earth in comparison.

The amount of dust in the atmosphere depends mainly on volcanic activity.

A paper written by Benjamin Franklin in 1783 blamed the unusually cool summer of 1783 on volcanic dust coming from Iceland, where the eruption of Laki volcano had released enormous amounts of sulfur dioxide, resulting in the death of much of the island's livestock and a catastrophic famine which killed a quarter of the Icelandic population.

Another possibility is that dark volcanic (or impact) dust falling on an ice desert (little or no fresh show) can melt a lot of snow very fast.

«Here, it is sufficient to note that many of the 20CEN / A1B simulations neglect negative forcings arising from stratospheric ozone depletion, volcanic dust, and indirect aerosol effects on clouds... It is likely that omission of these negative forcings contributes to the positive bias in the model average TLT trends in Figure 6F.

Although the Siberian Traps was basalt flooding, other volcanic activity occurring throughout the world as the continents were pushing together probably put a lot of dust in the atmosphere, off and on.