Timing and climate forcing of volcanic eruptions for the past 2,500 years

Nature

Volumn 523, Issue 7562, 2015, Pages 543-549

  Sigl, M ^a,q   Winstrup, M ^b   McConnell, J R ^a   Welten, K C ^c   Plunkett, G ^d   Ludlow, F ^e   Buntgen U ^f,g,h   Caffee, M ^i,j   Chellman, N ^a   Dahl Jensen, D ^k   Fischer, H ^g   Kipfstuhl, S ^l   Kostick, C ^m   Maselli, O J ^a   Mekhaldi, F ⁿ   Mulvaney, R ^o   Muscheler, R ⁿ   Pasteris, D R ^a   Pilcher, J R ^d   Salzer, M ^p   Schupbach S ^g   Steffensen, J P ^k   Vinther, B M ^k   Woodruff, T E ⁱ   more..

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^e Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^f SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^h Global Change Research Centre AS CR   (Czech Republic)

ⁱ PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^l ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^m UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^o BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^p UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^q PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ARRAY; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CATALYST; CLIMATE VARIATION; COOLING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ICE CORE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TIMESCALE; TREE RING; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENLAND; LATITUDE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPICS; VOLCANO; ANALYSIS; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANTARCTICA; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE; DISASTER; EUROPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTORY; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SEASON; TEMPERATURE; TIME; TIME FACTOR; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; EURASIA; GREENLAND; MESOAMERICA;

AEROSOL; BERYLLIUM; CARBON; ICE; RADIOISOTOPE; SULFUR;

AEROSOLS; AMERICAS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ATMOSPHERE; BERYLLIUM; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CLIMATE; DISASTERS; EUROPE; GREENLAND; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; ICE; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SEASONS; SULFUR; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

EID: 84938497374     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14565     Document Type: Article

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