{"id":13409,"date":"2020-06-23T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/research-reveals-how-volcanic-eruptions-affect-el-nino\/"},"modified":"2020-06-23T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T12:36:00","slug":"research-reveals-how-volcanic-eruptions-affect-el-nino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/research-reveals-how-volcanic-eruptions-affect-el-nino\/","title":{"rendered":"#Research reveals how volcanic eruptions affect El Ni\u00f1o"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Research reveals how volcanic eruptions affect El Ni\u00f1o<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n Halema’uma’u, Kilauea volcano, Hawai’i Island. Credit: Mila Zinkova, Wikimedia<\/a> Commons
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El Ni\u00f1o events\u2013\u2013major warmings of the tropical Pacific Ocean occurring every two to seven years\u2014have significant environmental and societal impacts in North and South America and other parts of the world. Previous research has shown volcanic eruptions affect El Ni\u00f1o\u2013Southern Oscillation cycles but the mechanisms of that connection have not been clear. A new study published in Science<\/a> Advances<\/i> co-authored by University of Hawai’i at M\u0101noa atmospheric scientist Christina Karamperidou suggests a new explanation for how this response might happ<\/a>en.<\/p>\n

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Volcanoes inject vast amounts of small particles, aerosols, high into the atmosphere. These particles act like a mirror in the sky, reflecting sunlight back into space and causing a cooling that lasts between one and two years\u2014thus linking volcanic eruptions to the climate system.<\/p>\n

In a computer simulation, the researchers tested the effects of a volcanic eruption occurring in the tropics but far from the equator, either in the Northern or the Southern Hemisphere. The simulated eruption was the size of the 1815 event at Mount Tambora, when a volcanic mountain on the northern coast of Sumbawa island, Indonesia, exploded in the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history.
\nConventional theories have focused on the local, equatorial effects of volcanic cooling. Contrary to this, the recent study found that cooling occurred mostly in the region outside the tropics. This distant cooling leads to a shift in winds along the equator favoring the onset of El Ni\u00f1o conditions when the eruption occurs in the tropics and north of the equator and La Ni\u00f1a conditions when the eruption occurs south of the equator.
\n“We showed in this study that whether explosive volcanic eruptions lead to El Ni\u00f1o or La Ni\u00f1a conditions depends not only on the hemisphere of the eruption and the state of the tropical Pacific at the time of the eruption, but also on the large-scale climate conditions outside of the tropics,” said Karamperidou, assistant professor in UH M\u0101noa’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology<\/a> (SOEST).
\n“In fact, in a previous study, we showed that high-latitude volcanic eruptions in the Northern Hemisphere, for example in Iceland, can also lead to El Ni\u00f1o conditions in the tropics,” she said. “Both of these studies highlight the role of the extratropical atmosphere in influencing the development of El Ni\u00f1o events, and ultimately help us to better forecast its behavior and its impacts in response to not only volcanic eruptions but also other aerosol emissions inside and outside of the tropics.”
\nUnderstanding this process provides insight about the response to human-made emissions such as CO2<\/sub> and aerosols. In this way, volcanoes are natural experiments that can help scientists better understand climate change caused by human activities.
\nThe study, published in Science Advances<\/i>, was led by Francesco S. R. Pausata, formerly with the Bolin Centre for Climate Research and now at the University of Quebec in Montreal.<\/p>\n

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More information:<\/strong>
\n Francesco S. R. Pausata et al. ITCZ shift and extratropical teleconnections drive ENSO response to volcanic eruptions, Science Advances<\/i> (2020). DOI: 10.1126\/sciadv.aaz5006<\/p>\n

Francesco S. R. Pausata et al. ENSO response to high-latitude volcanic eruptions in the Northern Hemisphere: The role of the initial conditions, Geophysical Research Letters<\/i> (2016). DOI: 10.1002\/2016GL069575<\/p><\/div>\n

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