Global Temperature Responses to Large Tropical Volcanic Eruptions in Paleo Data Assimilation Products and Climate Model Simulations Over the Last Millennium
Abstract
Abstract Large volcanic eruptions are one of the dominant perturbations to global and regional atmospheric temperatures on timescales of years to decades. Discrepancies remain, however, in the estimated magnitude and persistence of the surface temperature cooling caused by volcanic eruptions, as characterized by paleoclimatic proxies and climate models. We investigate these discrepancies in the context of large tropical eruptions over the Last Millennium using two state‐of‐the‐art data assimilation products, the Paleo Hydrodynamics Data Assimilation product (PHYDA) and the Last Millennium Reanalysis (LMR), and simulations from the National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Earth System Model‐Last Millennium Ensemble (NCAR CESM‐LME). We find that PHYDA and LMR estimate mean global and hemispheric cooling that is similar in magnitude and persistence once effects from eruptions occurring in short succession are removed. The estimates also compare well to Northern‐Hemisphere reconstructions based solely or partially on tree‐ring density, which have been proposed as the most accurate proxy estimates of surface cooling due to volcanism. All proxy‐based estimates also agree well with the magnitude of the mean cooling simulated by the CESM‐LME. Differences remain, however, in the spatial patterns of the temperature responses in the PHYDA, LMR, and the CESM‐LME. The duration of cooling anomalies alsomore »
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- Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences University at Albany (SUNY) Albany NY USA
- Lamont‐Doherty Earth Observatory Columbia University, Palisades New York USA, Institute of Earth Sciences Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem Israel
- Lamont‐Doherty Earth Observatory Columbia University, Palisades New York USA
- Department of Geography Autonomous University of Madrid Madrid Spain
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- Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
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- Journal Name: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Journal Volume: 36 Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 2572-4517
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- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
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- United Kingdom
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- English
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Tejedor, E., Steiger, N., Smerdon, J. E., Serrano‐Notivoli, R., and Vuille, M. Global Temperature Responses to Large Tropical Volcanic Eruptions in Paleo Data Assimilation Products and Climate Model Simulations Over the Last Millennium. United Kingdom: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1029/2020PA004128.
Tejedor, E., Steiger, N., Smerdon, J. E., Serrano‐Notivoli, R., & Vuille, M. Global Temperature Responses to Large Tropical Volcanic Eruptions in Paleo Data Assimilation Products and Climate Model Simulations Over the Last Millennium. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020PA004128
Tejedor, E., Steiger, N., Smerdon, J. E., Serrano‐Notivoli, R., and Vuille, M. Tue .
"Global Temperature Responses to Large Tropical Volcanic Eruptions in Paleo Data Assimilation Products and Climate Model Simulations Over the Last Millennium". United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020PA004128.
@article{osti_1779928,
title = {Global Temperature Responses to Large Tropical Volcanic Eruptions in Paleo Data Assimilation Products and Climate Model Simulations Over the Last Millennium},
author = {Tejedor, E. and Steiger, N. and Smerdon, J. E. and Serrano‐Notivoli, R. and Vuille, M.},
abstractNote = {Abstract Large volcanic eruptions are one of the dominant perturbations to global and regional atmospheric temperatures on timescales of years to decades. Discrepancies remain, however, in the estimated magnitude and persistence of the surface temperature cooling caused by volcanic eruptions, as characterized by paleoclimatic proxies and climate models. We investigate these discrepancies in the context of large tropical eruptions over the Last Millennium using two state‐of‐the‐art data assimilation products, the Paleo Hydrodynamics Data Assimilation product (PHYDA) and the Last Millennium Reanalysis (LMR), and simulations from the National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Earth System Model‐Last Millennium Ensemble (NCAR CESM‐LME). We find that PHYDA and LMR estimate mean global and hemispheric cooling that is similar in magnitude and persistence once effects from eruptions occurring in short succession are removed. The estimates also compare well to Northern‐Hemisphere reconstructions based solely or partially on tree‐ring density, which have been proposed as the most accurate proxy estimates of surface cooling due to volcanism. All proxy‐based estimates also agree well with the magnitude of the mean cooling simulated by the CESM‐LME. Differences remain, however, in the spatial patterns of the temperature responses in the PHYDA, LMR, and the CESM‐LME. The duration of cooling anomalies also persists for several years longer in the PHYDA and LMR relative to the CESM‐LME. Our results demonstrate progress in resolving discrepancies between proxy‐ and model‐based estimates of temperature responses to volcanism, but also indicate these estimates must be further reconciled to better characterize the risks of future volcanic eruptions.},
doi = {10.1029/2020PA004128},
journal = {Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology},
number = 4,
volume = 36,
place = {United Kingdom},
year = {Tue Apr 27 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Tue Apr 27 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}
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