Interdisciplinary studies of volcanic impacts on climate and society
Interdisciplinary studies of volcanic impacts on climate and society
Editor(s): Matthew Toohey, Kevin Anchukaitis, Allegra N. LeGrande, Francis Ludlow, Michael Sigl, Célin Vidal, and Jürg Luterbacher
Volcanic eruptions can inject large amounts of material into the atmosphere, which impacts climate and societies on regional to global scales. The Volcanic Impacts on Climate and Society (VICS) working group, part of the Past Global Changes (PAGES) project, supports research focused on reconstructing the history of past volcanism, and its impact on the climate system and societies. This special issue provides authoritative statements on the state-of-the-art knowledge of historically and scientifically important eruptions from an interdisciplinary perspective and set an agenda for future research into links between volcanism, climate and society. These studies will provide updates on well-known events, as well as expanding the focus to include eruptions and time periods which have so far received less attention. Studies will integrate interdisciplinary evidence and explore the rich narrative circumstances and uncertainties unique to each event or period. As a collection, the special issue will highlight both the commonalities between eruptive events, as well as the variance in responses to different eruptions.

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26 Apr 2023
Mechanisms of hydrological responses to volcanic eruptions in the Asian monsoon and westerlies-dominated subregions
Zhihong Zhuo, Ingo Kirchner, and Ulrich Cubasch
Clim. Past, 19, 835–849, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-835-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-835-2023, 2023
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03 Feb 2023
Climatic and societal impacts in Scandinavia following the 536 and 540 CE volcanic double event
Evelien van Dijk, Ingar Mørkestøl Gundersen, Anna de Bode, Helge Høeg, Kjetil Loftsgarden, Frode Iversen, Claudia Timmreck, Johann Jungclaus, and Kirstin Krüger
Clim. Past, 19, 357–398, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-357-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-357-2023, 2023
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27 Jan 2023
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Investigating hydroclimatic impacts of the 168–158 BCE volcanic quartet and their relevance to the Nile River basin and Egyptian history
Ram Singh, Kostas Tsigaridis, Allegra N. LeGrande, Francis Ludlow, and Joseph G. Manning
Clim. Past, 19, 249–275, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-249-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-249-2023, 2023
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09 Sep 2022
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Recession or resilience? Long-range socioeconomic consequences of the 17th century volcanic eruptions in northern Fennoscandia
Heli Huhtamaa, Markus Stoffel, and Christophe Corona
Clim. Past, 18, 2077–2092, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-2077-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-2077-2022, 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
Clim. Past, 18, 2021–2043, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-2021-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-2021-2022, 2022
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12 Jul 2022
Was there a volcanic-induced long-lasting cooling over the Northern Hemisphere in the mid-6th–7th century?
Evelien van Dijk, Johann Jungclaus, Stephan Lorenz, Claudia Timmreck, and Kirstin Krüger
Clim. Past, 18, 1601–1623, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-1601-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-1601-2022, 2022
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29 Jun 2022
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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 Atlantic region
Helen Mackay, Gill Plunkett, Britta J. L. Jensen, Thomas J. Aubry, Christophe Corona, Woon Mi Kim, Matthew Toohey, Michael Sigl, Markus Stoffel, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Christoph Raible, Matthew S. M. Bolton, Joseph G. Manning, Timothy P. Newfield, Nicola Di Cosmo, Francis Ludlow, Conor Kostick, Zhen Yang, Lisa Coyle McClung, Matthew Amesbury, Alistair Monteath, Paul D. M. Hughes, Pete G. Langdon, Dan Charman, Robert Booth, Kimberley L. Davies, Antony Blundell, and Graeme T. Swindles
Clim. Past, 18, 1475–1508, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-1475-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-1475-2022, 2022
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24 May 2022
Do Southern Hemisphere tree rings record past volcanic events? A case study from New Zealand
Philippa A. Higgins, Jonathan G. Palmer, Chris S. M. Turney, Martin S. Andersen, and Fiona Johnson
Clim. Past, 18, 1169–1188, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-1169-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-1169-2022, 2022
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20 May 2022
Climatic, weather, and socio-economic conditions corresponding to the mid-17th-century eruption cluster
Markus Stoffel, Christophe Corona, Francis Ludlow, Michael Sigl, Heli Huhtamaa, Emmanuel Garnier, Samuli Helama, Sébastien Guillet, Arlene Crampsie, Katrin Kleemann, Chantal Camenisch, Joseph McConnell, and Chaochao Gao
Clim. Past, 18, 1083–1108, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-1083-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-1083-2022, 2022
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12 Apr 2022
The 1600 CE Huaynaputina eruption as a possible trigger for persistent cooling in the North Atlantic region
Sam White, Eduardo Moreno-Chamarro, Davide Zanchettin, Heli Huhtamaa, Dagomar Degroot, Markus Stoffel, and Christophe Corona
Clim. Past, 18, 739–757, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-739-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-739-2022, 2022
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15 Mar 2022
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Magnitude, frequency and climate forcing of global volcanism during the last glacial period as seen in Greenland and Antarctic ice cores (60–9 ka)
Jiamei Lin, Anders Svensson, Christine S. Hvidberg, Johannes Lohmann, Steffen Kristiansen, Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Jørgen Peder Steffensen, Sune Olander Rasmussen, Eliza Cook, Helle Astrid Kjær, Bo M. Vinther, Hubertus Fischer, Thomas Stocker, Michael Sigl, Matthias Bigler, Mirko Severi, Rita Traversi, and Robert Mulvaney
Clim. Past, 18, 485–506, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-485-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-485-2022, 2022
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18 Jan 2022
No evidence for tephra in Greenland from the historic eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE: implications for geochronology and paleoclimatology
Gill Plunkett, Michael Sigl, Hans F. Schwaiger, Emma L. Tomlinson, Matthew Toohey, Joseph R. McConnell, Jonathan R. Pilcher, Takeshi Hasegawa, and Claus Siebe
Clim. Past, 18, 45–65, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-45-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-45-2022, 2022
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20 Dec 2021
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The blue suns of 1831: was the eruption of Ferdinandea, near Sicily, one of the largest volcanic climate forcing events of the nineteenth century?
Christopher Garrison, Christopher Kilburn, David Smart, and Stephen Edwards
Clim. Past, 17, 2607–2632, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-2607-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-2607-2021, 2021
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18 Oct 2021
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New insights into the  ∼ 74 ka Toba eruption from sulfur isotopes of polar ice cores
Laura Crick, Andrea Burke, William Hutchison, Mika Kohno, Kathryn A. Moore, Joel Savarino, Emily A. Doyle, Sue Mahony, Sepp Kipfstuhl, James W. B. Rae, Robert C. J. Steele, R. Stephen J. Sparks, and Eric W. Wolff
Clim. Past, 17, 2119–2137, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-2119-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-2119-2021, 2021
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13 Jul 2021
The unidentified eruption of 1809: a climatic cold case
Claudia Timmreck, Matthew Toohey, Davide Zanchettin, Stefan Brönnimann, Elin Lundstad, and Rob Wilson
Clim. Past, 17, 1455–1482, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-1455-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-1455-2021, 2021
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30 Apr 2021
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On the phenomenon of the blue sun
Nellie Wullenweber, Anna Lange, Alexei Rozanov, and Christian von Savigny
Clim. Past, 17, 969–983, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-969-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-969-2021, 2021
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11 Mar 2021
Simulation of ash clouds after a Laacher See-type eruption
Ulrike Niemeier, Felix Riede, and Claudia Timmreck
Clim. Past, 17, 633–652, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-633-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-633-2021, 2021
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04 Mar 2021
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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, Gill Plunkett, Christophe Corona, Nathan J. Chellman, Joseph R. McConnell, John R. Pilcher, Markus Stoffel, and Michael Sigl
Clim. Past, 17, 565–585, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-565-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-565-2021, 2021
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26 Jan 2021
The response of annual minimum temperature on the eastern central Tibetan Plateau to large volcanic eruptions over the period 1380–2014 CE
Yajun Wang, Xuemei Shao, Yong Zhang, and Mingqi Li
Clim. Past, 17, 241–252, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-241-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-241-2021, 2021
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02 Jul 2020
Volcanism and climate change as drivers in Holocene depositional dynamic of Laguna del Maule (Andes of central Chile – 36° S)
Matías Frugone-Álvarez, Claudio Latorre, Fernando Barreiro-Lostres, Santiago Giralt, Ana Moreno, Josué Polanco-Martínez, Antonio Maldonado, María Laura Carrevedo, Patricia Bernárdez, Ricardo Prego, Antonio Delgado Huertas, Magdalena Fuentealba, and Blas Valero-Garcés
Clim. Past, 16, 1097–1125, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1097-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1097-2020, 2020
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