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Cryptotephra from the Icelandic Veiðivötn 1477 CE eruption in a Greenland ice core: confirming the dating of volcanic events in the 1450s CE and assessing the eruption's climatic impact
Peter M. Abbott
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Climate and Environmental Physics and Oeschger Centre for Climate
Change Research, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Gill Plunkett
Archaeology and Palaeoecology, School of Natural and Built
Environment, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK
Christophe Corona
Geolab, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, 63000,
Clermont-Ferrand, France
Nathan J. Chellman
Desert Research Institute, Nevada System of Higher Education, Reno,
Nevada 89512, USA
Joseph R. McConnell
Desert Research Institute, Nevada System of Higher Education, Reno,
Nevada 89512, USA
John R. Pilcher
Archaeology and Palaeoecology, School of Natural and Built
Environment, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK
Markus Stoffel
Climatic Change Impacts and Risks in the Anthropocene (C-CIA),
Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Geneva, 1205 Geneva,
Switzerland
Department F.-A. Forel for Environmental and Aquatic Sciences,
University of Geneva, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland
Michael Sigl
Climate and Environmental Physics and Oeschger Centre for Climate
Change Research, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- Mid-to Late Holocene East Antarctic ice-core tephrochronology: Implications for reconstructing volcanic eruptions and assessing their climatic impacts over the last 5,500 years P. Abbott et al. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108544
- The unidentified eruption of 1809: a climatic cold case C. Timmreck et al. 10.5194/cp-17-1455-2021
- The 1831 CE mystery eruption identified as Zavaritskii caldera, Simushir Island (Kurils) W. Hutchison et al. 10.1073/pnas.2416699122
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Short summary
Volcanic eruptions are a key source of climatic variability, and greater understanding of their past influence will increase the accuracy of future projections. We use volcanic ash from a 1477 CE Icelandic eruption in a Greenlandic ice core as a temporal fix point to constrain the timing of two eruptions in the 1450s CE and their climatic impact. Despite being the most explosive Icelandic eruption in the last 1200 years, the 1477 CE event had a limited impact on Northern Hemisphere climate.
Volcanic eruptions are a key source of climatic variability, and greater understanding of their...
