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Articles | Volume 18, issue 9
Articles | Volume 18, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-2021-2022
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02 Sep 2022
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Ice core evidence for major volcanic eruptions at the onset of Dansgaard–Oeschger warming events

Johannes Lohmann and Anders Svensson

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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-2021-2022-supplement

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High-resolution oxygen isotope and dust record of the NGRIP ice core, NGRIP members NGRIP Members http://iceandclimate.nbi.ku.dk/data/NGRIP_d18O_and_dust_5cm.xls

GISP2 Stable Isotopes (Deuterium, Deuterium Excess, and Oxygen) J. W. C. White https://arcticdata.io/catalog/view/doi:10.5065/D6JW8C0F

NEEM ice core High Resolution (0.05 m) Water Isotope Ratios (18O/16O, 2H/1H) covering 8--129 ky b2k V. Gkinis, B. M. Vinther, T. Quistgaard, T. Popp, A.-K. Faber, C. T. Holme, C. M. Jensen, M. Lanzky, A. M. Lütt, V. Mandrakis, N. O. Ørum, A.-S. Pedersen, N. Vaxevani, Y. Weng, E. Capron, D. Dahl-Jensen, M. Hörhold, T. R. Jones, J. Jouzel, A. Landais, V. Masson-Delmotte, H. Oerter, S. O. Rasmussen, H. C. Steen-Larsen, J. P. Steffensen, A. E. Sveinbjörnsdottir, B. H. Vaughn, and J. White https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.925552

Veros, the versatile ocean simulator, in pure Python, powered by JAX D. Häfner and R. L. Jacobsen https://github.com/dionhaefner/veros

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Combining a new record of bipolar volcanism from Greenland and Antarctic ice cores with records of abrupt climate change derived from the same ice cores, this study provides the most convincing evidence yet of the influence of large volcanic eruptions on long term climate variability, namely Dansgaard-Oeschger warming events. This should garner significant popular interest.
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Major volcanic eruptions are known to cause considerable short-term impacts on the global climate. Their influence on long-term climate variability and regime shifts is less well-understood. Here we show that very large, bipolar eruptions occurred more frequently than expected by chance just before abrupt climate change events in the last glacial period (Dansgaard–Oeschger events). Thus, such large eruptions may in some cases act as short-term triggers for abrupt regime shifts of the climate.
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