Pinatubo global cooling on target

Journal Article · Fri Jan 29 00:00:00 EST 1993 · Science (Washington, D.C.); (United States)

OSTI ID:7065976

Kerr, R A

When Pinatubo blasted millions of tons of debris into the stratosphere in June 1991, Hansen of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies used his computer climate model to predict that the shade cost by the debris would cool the globe by about half a degree C. Year end temperature reports for 1992 are now showing that the prediction was on target-confirming the tentative belief that volcanos can temporarily cool the climate and validating at least one component of the computer models predicting a greenhouse warming.

• OSTI ID: 7065976
• Journal Information: Science (Washington, D.C.); (United States), Vol. 259:5095; ISSN 0036-8075
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
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