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Articles | Volume 19, issue 1
Articles | Volume 19, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-23-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-23-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 19, issue 1
Research article
 | 
06 Jan 2023
Research article |  | 06 Jan 2023

Frequency of large volcanic eruptions over the past 200 000 years

Eric W. Wolff, Andrea Burke, Laura Crick, Emily A. Doyle, Helen M. Innes, Sue H. Mahony, James W. B. Rae, Mirko Severi, and R. Stephen J. Sparks

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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-23-2023-supplement

Data sets

Fluxes of largest volcanic peaks in the EDC sulfate record E. W. Wolff and M. Severi https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.926087

NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology - EPICA Dome C 203,000 Year High-Resolution FIC Sulfate Data M. Severi, R. Udisti, E. Castellano, and E. W. Wolff https://doi.org/10.25921/kgv8-cn35

AICC2012 chronology for ice core EDC L. Bazin, A. Landais, B. Lemieux-Dudon, H. Toyé Mahamadou Kele, D. Veres, F. Parrenin, P. Martinerie, C. Ritz, E. Capron, V. Y. Lipenkov, M. F. Loutre, D. Raynaud, B. M. Vinther, A. M. Svensson, S. O. Rasmussen, M. Severi, T. Blunier, M. C. Leuenberger, H. Fischer, V. Masson-Delmotte, J. A. Chappellaz, and E. W. Wolff https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.824894

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Large volcanic eruptions leave an imprint of a spike of sulfate deposition that can be measured in ice cores. Here we use a method that logs the number and size of large eruptions recorded in an Antarctic core in a consistent way through the last 200 000 years. The rate of recorded eruptions is variable but shows no trends. In particular, there is no increase in recorded eruptions during deglaciation periods. This is consistent with most recorded eruptions being from lower latitudes.
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