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Mount Agung Eruption Provides Test of a Global Climatic Perturbation

Hansen, James E., Wang, Wei-Chyung, Lacis, Andrew A.·1978·Science

Abstract

The Mount Agung volcanic eruption in 1963 provides the best-documented global radiative perturbation to the earth's atmosphere currently available. Data on stratospheric aerosols produced by this eruption have been used as input to a model for the atmospheric thermal structure. The computed magnitude, sign, and phase lag of the temperature changes in both the stratosphere and the troposphere are in good agreement with observations, providing evidence that the climatic response to a global radiative perturbation is significant, as well as support for the use of theoretical models to predict climatic effects.

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  • By 1978, the question of the relative role of aerosol cooling and greenhouse warming had been sorted out; greenhouse warming had become the dominant forcing.

    “By 1978, the question of the relative role of aerosol cooling and greenhouse warming had been sorted out. Greenhouse warming, the researchers concluded, had become the dominant forcing (Hansen et al. 1978; Weart 2003).”

    From THE MYTH OF THE 1970s GLOBAL COOLING SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS (2008) · cites this paper as Hansen et al. 1978

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Authors
Hansen, J. E., Wang, W.-C., & Lacis, A. A.
Affiliations
Goddard Institute for Space Studies (US)
Venue
Science
Published
1978-03-10
Volume
199
Issue
4333
Pages
1065-1068
ISSN
  • 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-9203
OpenAlex
W2090549689
Cited by
193
References
39
Citations by year
2024: 8 · 2023: 3 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 2
FWCI
30.38
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Science (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Climate variability and models
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
Keywords
Mount Agung eruption, volcanic eruptions, stratospheric aerosols, radiative forcing, global climate response, stratospheric temperature, tropospheric temperature, atmospheric temperature structure, climate modeling

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