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Chile’s Calbuco Eruption: Potential Weather Impacts
- bjwbell 11y agoThe article mentions Volcanic Winter. The most famous one is the year without summer, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer, due to the Mt Tambora eruption in the dutch east indies.
- brooklyndavs 11y agoAre the weather and short lived climate impacts of major eruptions limited to that hemisphere? I would think that an eruption in Chile wouldn't have an impact on northern hemisphere climate. While there was global cooling after Pinatubo I assume the cooling was mostly limited to the northern hemisphere?
- andrelaszlo 11y ago"The Calbuco Volcano in Chile has erupted, spewing millions of dust and volcanic ash particles into the atmosphere and lower stratosphere." Slight understatement, maybe? Probably thousands of tonnes, if not millions. The Eyjafjallajökull eruption released about 100 million cubic metres of airborne material[0] [0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_eruptions_of_Eyjafjallaj%C3%B6kull#Volume_of_erupted_material_and_magma_discharge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_eruptions_of_Eyjafjallaj%C...