Articles | Volume 12, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-961-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-961-2016
Research article
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15 Apr 2016
Research article |  | 15 Apr 2016

The influence of volcanic eruptions on the climate of tropical South America during the last millennium in an isotope-enabled general circulation model

Christopher M. Colose, Allegra N. LeGrande, and Mathias Vuille

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Monthly Atmospheric and SST Indices NOAA CPC http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/data/indices/

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Volcanic forcing is the most important source of forced variability during the preindustrial component of the last millennium (~ 850-1850 CE) and is important during the last century.

Here, we focus on the climate impact over South America in a model-based study. Emphasis is given to temperature, precipitation, and oxygen isotope variability (allowing for potential contact made with paleoclimate-based observations)