Climatic impact of the long-lasting 1783 Laki eruption: Inapplicability of mass-independent sulfur isotopic composition measurements

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 23, 2012, Pages

  Schmidt, Anja ^a   Thordarson, Thorvaldur ^b   Oman, Luke D ^c   Robock, Alan ^d   Self, Stephen ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPES; SULFUR; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; CLIMATIC IMPACT; COLD WINTER; GREENLAND; ICE CORE; ICELANDS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LONG LASTING; NATURAL VARIABILITY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; RADIATIVE EFFECTS; TEMPERATURE PROXY; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; VOLCANIC AEROSOLS; WINTER COOLING;

SULFUR DIOXIDE;

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAVA; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; STRATOSPHERE; SULFUR DIOXIDE; SULFUR ISOTOPE; TROPOSPHERE; VOLCANIC CLOUD; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EUROPE; ICELAND;

EID: 84871370802     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JD018414     Document Type: Article

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