Sentences with phrase «volcanic explosions in»

It's the first time that the various stages of a mass extinction have been accurately understood and that scientists have been able to assess the major role played by volcanic explosions in these climate processes.

Improved models successfully predicted the temporary cooling due to a huge volcanic explosion in 1991 and passed many other tests.

No other volcanic explosion in history has come close to wreaking disaster of that magnitude.

A few years later, Lewis said that Zinke said, «A volcanic explosion in the Philippines has done more to add greenhouse gases than any manmade cause.»

Not exact matches

Your average fundamental sell - side analyst has spent the year kneeling in the grass, gazing at ants through a magnifying glass while hurricanes, earthquakes and volcanic explosions raged all around him.

«The volcanic eruption has now moved on to the next, more severe, magmatic eruption phase, where highly viscous lava can trap gases under pressure, potentially leading to an explosion,» says Mark Tingay, a geologist at the University of Adelaide in Australia.

The scientists studied works painted around the times of major volcanic eruptions, such as the cataclysmic explosion of Mount Krakatoa in 1883, to measure how much pollution was pumped into the skies.

Seismologists working in the state say yes — after using a refined set of methods that allows them to detect and locate the airwaves generated by a volcanic explosion on distant seismic networks.

On Earth, volcanic explosions like the one that tore the lid off Mount St. Helens happen because our planet's interior is rich in volatiles — water, carbon dioxide and other compounds with relatively low boiling points.

Thus, a large volcanic explosion this year would result in cooling temperatures for a few years... but the long - term trend would soon override this.

But in one tumultuous scene all of his anxieties erupt in a volcanic explosion of anger unlike anything in the other two films.

«The volcanic eruption has now moved on to the next, more severe, magmatic eruption phase, where highly viscous lava can trap gasses under pressure, potentially leading to an explosion,» Mark Tingay, a geologist at the University of Adelaide's Australian School of Petroleum, said in a statement Monday.

In 1912 there was a massive volcanic explosion from Novarupta area of Mount Katmai that is considered to be the largest eruption of the 20th Century.

In Costa Rica: Arenal Volcano emits small volcanic explosions every few minutes, with larger eruptions occurring occasionally.

My perspective is thus that on the basin - wide scale there is no chance that these volcanic eruptions / explosions had anything to do with changes in ice cover, for the reasons described by Peter Winsor et al..

Particularly convincing was a prediction that Hansen's team made shortly after a huge volcanic explosion polluted the stratosphere in 1991.

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I'm sure alot more % of volcanic emmission actualy makes it into the atmosphere than ours does cause there's so much pressure behind the explosion in most cases, making it logical for me to conclude that its very possible that volcanoes exceed our co2 emmission.

Led by Dr. James E. Hansen from 1981 to 2013, research at GISS emphasized a broad study of global change, which is an interdisciplinary initiative addressing natural and man - made changes in our environment that occur on various time scales — from one - time forcings such as volcanic explosions, to seasonal / annual effects such as El Niño, and on up to the millennia of ice ages — and that affect the habitability of our planet.

I consider it as very likely that the 20 year trends will still be statistically significant also in three, five or ten years from now, unless there is some strong volcanic explosion that blows a lot of reflecting aerosols in the stratosphere causing a temporary temperature dip, or some other cause the effect of which is explainable within the framework of current knowledge about the climate system, but as event not really predictable.

Not only the killing of flora and fauna due to the radiation of the nuclear explosions but also the blasts itsself, could this not have been a cause of more instability of that ocean's floor in terms of earthsquakes, tsunamis, volcanic activity, etc.?

* the break is not at the right date: there is no theoretical break around 1940 where the observations obviously seem to break, and there is no clear observed feature around 1963 (Agung explosion) where the model break — actually none of the volcanic eruptions shows a distinctive feature, as significative as in the models.

Something like a volcanic explosion which would force CO2 up into higher altitudes and from there carried in big wind systems, say the jet stream, would move it much further from local, but, say, a factory chimney would release it into whatever local weather system was happening.

Perils in this group include fire or lightning, explosion, smoke, volcanic eruption, and sudden and accidental damage from artificially generated electric current.