Volcanic influence on European summer precipitation through monsoons: Possible Cause for "years without summer"

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3683-3691

  Wegmann, Martin ^a   Brönnimann, Stefan ^a   Bhend, Jonas ^b,c   Franke, Jörg ^a   Folini, Doris ^b   Wild, Martin ^b   Luterbacher, Jürg ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; VOLCANOES;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC TELECONNECTIONS; CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; HADLEY CIRCULATION; MONSOON CIRCULATIONS; SUMMER PRECIPITATION; VOLCANIC AEROSOLS; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; HADLEY CELL; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; STRATOSPHERE; SUMMER; TELECONNECTION; TROPICAL REGION; VOLCANIC AEROSOL; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EUROPE;

EID: 84900391471     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00524.1     Document Type: Article

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