Now it's mystery time!
Mount Tambora blew up on April 10, 1815, the most explosive eruption in human history -- leading to the Year without Summer in 1816.
But, the years prior were already very cold suggesting another event preceded Tambora.
Mount Tambora blew up on April 10, 1815, the most explosive eruption in human history -- leading to the Year without Summer in 1816.
But, the years prior were already very cold suggesting another event preceded Tambora.
https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/1472591031594065924
Scientists have inferred a powerful but unknown volcanic eruption -- larger than VEI 6 -- perhaps 1/2 of the sulfate contribution as Tambora -- to have occurred in December 1808 to begin decade of large global cooling (stratospheric veil).
cp.copernicus.org/articles/10/17…
cp.copernicus.org/articles/10/17…
The paper is easily accessible and read by any history buff. You'll see how important historical accounts are to piecing together ice core evidence even from Antarctica. The 1810s also coincided with the Dalton minimum of very low solar activity. Very tough decade.
Recent paper still calls the Unknown 1809 volcanic eruption a "climatic cold case"
Important to note importance of El Niño or La Niña in modeling the effects of tropical volcanic eruptions.
cp.copernicus.org/articles/17/14…
Important to note importance of El Niño or La Niña in modeling the effects of tropical volcanic eruptions.
cp.copernicus.org/articles/17/14…
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