Long-term variability of human health-related solar ultraviolet-B radiation doses from the 1980s to the end of the 21st century

C Zerefos, I Fountoulakis, K Eleftheratos… - Physiological …, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
Solar ultraviolet-B (UV-B) radiation has played a crucial role in the evolution of life on Earth.
UV exposure presents both risks and benefits to humans. Optimal UV-B exposure behaviors …

Reckoning with the rocky relationship between eruption size and climate response: toward a volcano-climate index

A Schmidt, BA Black - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Volcanic eruptions impact climate, subtly and profoundly. The size of an eruption is only
loosely correlated with the severity of its climate effects, which can include changes in …

Tropical volcanoes synchronize eastern Canada with Northern Hemisphere millennial temperature variability

F Wang, D Arseneault, É Boucher, F Gennaretti… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Although global and Northern Hemisphere temperature reconstructions are
coherent with climate model simulations over the last millennium, reconstructed …

The Toba supervolcano eruption caused severe tropical stratospheric ozone depletion

S Osipov, G Stenchikov, K Tsigaridis… - … Earth & Environment, 2021 - nature.com
Supervolcano eruptions have occurred throughout Earth's history and have major
environmental impacts. These impacts are mostly associated with the attenuation of visible …

Eruption plumes extended more than 30 km in altitude in both phases of the Millennium eruption of Paektu (Changbaishan) volcano

A Costa, L Mingari, VC Smith, G Macedonio… - … Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Millennium Eruption of Paektu volcano, on the border of China and North
Korea, generated tephra deposits that extend> 1000 km from the vent, making it one of the …

Co-emission of volcanic sulfur and halogens amplifies volcanic effective radiative forcing

J Staunton-Sykes, TJ Aubry, YM Shin… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
The evolution of volcanic sulfur and the resulting radiative forcing following explosive
volcanic eruptions is well understood. Petrological evidence suggests that significant …

Global tree-ring response and inferred climate variation following the mid-thirteenth century Samalas eruption

U Büntgen, SH Smith, S Wagner, P Krusic, J Esper… - Climate Dynamics, 2022 - Springer
The largest explosive volcanic eruption of the Common Era in terms of estimated sulphur
yield to the stratosphere was identified in glaciochemical records 40 years ago, and dates to …

Sensitivity of stratospheric ozone to the latitude, season, and halogen content of a contemporary explosive volcanic eruption

FF Østerstrøm, JE Klobas, RP Kennedy, A Cadoux… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
We present a systematic evaluation of the perturbation to the stratosphere from an explosive
volcanic eruption injecting sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, as a function of latitude …

[HTML][HTML] The 852/3 CE Mount Churchill eruption: examining the potential climatic and societal impacts and the timing of the Medieval Climate Anomaly in the North …

H Mackay, G Plunkett, BJL Jensen, TJ Aubry… - Climate of the …, 2022 - cp.copernicus.org
The 852/3 CE eruption of Mount Churchill, Alaska, was one of the largest first-millennium
volcanic events, with a magnitude of 6.7 (VEI 6) and a tephra volume of 39.4–61.9 km 3 …

Severe global cooling after volcanic super-eruptions? The answer hinges on unknown aerosol size

Z McGraw, K DallaSanta, LM Polvani… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
Volcanic super-eruptions have been theorized to cause severe global cooling, with the 74
kya Toba eruption purported to have driven humanity to near-extinction. However, this …