| Title | New ice core evidence for a volcanic cause of the A.D. 536 dust veil |
| Author | Larsen, L.B.; Vinther, B.M.; Briffa, K.R.; Melvin, T.M.; Clausen, H.B.; Jones, P.D.; Siggaard-Andersen, M.L.; Hammer, C.U.; Eronen, M.; Grudd, H.; Gunnarson, B.E.; Hantemirov, R.M.; Naurzbaev, M.M.; Nicolussi, K. |
| Author Affil | Larsen, L.B., University of Copenhagen, Niels Bohr Institute, Centre for Ice and Climate, Copenhagen, Denmark. Other: University of East Anglia, United Kingdom; University of Helsinki, Finland; Stockholm University, Sweden; Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation; University of Innsbruck, Austria |
| Source | Geophysical Research Letters, 35(4), Citation L04708. Publisher: American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States. ISSN: 0094-8276 |
| Publication Date | 2008 |
| Notes | In English. Based on Publisher- supplied data GeoRef Acc. No: 288051. CRREL Acc. No: 63000693 |
| Index Terms | climatic change; cooling; dust; Quaternary deposits; sediments; volcanoes; Antarctica; Greenland; Northern Hemisphere; Far East--Tambora; Arctic region; Asia; atmosphere; Cenozoic; chronology; clastic sediments; climate change; climate effects; eruptions; Far East; Holocene; ice cores; Indonesia; Lesser Sunda Islands; Quaternary; sulfates; Tambora; tree rings |
| Abstract | New and well-dated evidence of sulphate deposits in Greenland and Antarctic ice cores indicate a substantial and extensive atmospheric acidic dust veil at A.D. 533-534 ± 2 years. This was likely produced by a large explosive, near equatorial volcanic eruption, causing widespread dimming and contributing to the abrupt cooling across much of the Northern Hemisphere known from historical records and tree-ring data to have occurred in A.D. 536. (mod. journ. abst.) |
| URL | http://hdl.handle.net/10.1029/2007GL032450 |
| Publication Type | journal article |
| Record ID | 85013 |