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The conversion of sulfur dioxide to sulfuric acid, which condenses rapidly in the stratosphere to form fine sulfate aerosols.

A volcanic winter is a reduction in global temperatures caused by droplets of sulfuric acid obscuring the Sun and raising Earth's albedo (increasing the reflection of solar radiation) after a large, sulfur-rich, particularly explosive volcanic eruption. Climate effects are primarily dependent upon the amount of injection of SO2 and H2S into the stratosphere where they react with OH and H2O to form H2SO4 on a timescale of a week, and the resulting H2SO4 aerosols produce the dominant radiative effect. Volcanic stratospheric aerosols cool the surface by reflecting solar radiation and warm the stratosphere by absorbing terrestrial radiation for several years. Moreover, the cooling trend can be further extended by atmosphere–ice–ocean feedback mechanisms. These feedbacks can continue to maintain the cool climate long after the volcanic aerosols have dissipated.

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Volcanic winter

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A volcanic winter is a reduction in global temperatures caused by droplets of sulfuric acid obscuring the Sun and raising Earth's albedo (increasing the...

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Volcano

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cool Earth's troposphere. Historically, large volcanic eruptions have been followed by volcanic winters which have caused catastrophic famines. Other...

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Timeline of volcanism on Earth

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to the present). Other volcanic eruptions are also listed. Some eruptions cooled the global climate—inducing a volcanic winter—depending on the amount...

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536

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nominated 536 as "the worst year to be alive" because of the volcanic winter of 536 caused by a volcanic eruption early in the year, causing average temperatures...

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Impact winter

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Toba catastrophe theory

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Year Without a Summer

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Hemisphere. Evidence suggests that the anomaly was predominantly a volcanic winter event caused by the massive 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in April...

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Nuclear winter

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the frequent volcanic eruptions that inject sulfates into the stratosphere and thereby produce minor, even negligible, volcanic winter effects. A suite...

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Fimbulvetr

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the forest of Hoddmímis holt. The mythology might be related to the volcanic winter of 536, which resulted in a notable drop in temperature across northern...

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Late Antique Little Ice Age

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Antiquity. The period coincides with three large volcanic eruptions in 535/536, 539/540 and 547. The volcanic winter of 536 was the early phenomenon of the century-long...

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1815 eruption of Mount Tambora

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and its 1815 eruption was the most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded human history. This volcanic explosivity index (VEI) 7 eruption ejected 37–45 km3...

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1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo

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eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines' Luzon Volcanic Arc was the second-largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century, behind only the 1912 eruption...

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Supervolcano

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ago that may have caused a global volcanic winter Volcanic winter – Temperature anomaly event caused by a volcanic eruption The term was first used in...

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Lake Toba

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was also suggested that the eruption of the Toba Caldera led to a volcanic winter with a worldwide decrease in temperature between 3 and 5 °C (5.4 and...

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complete list. Year Without a Summer Volcanic winter of 536 List of largest volcanic eruptions List of Quaternary volcanic eruptions Timeline of volcanism...

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1883 eruption of Krakatoa

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volcanic deposits on Steers and Calmeyer had caused steam to rise, which some mistook for a continued eruption. The eruption caused a volcanic winter...

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Frostpunk

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Laki

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Minoan eruption

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beginning of the Shang dynasty, which may have been a consequence of volcanic winter (similar to 1816, the Year Without a Summer, after the 1815 eruption...

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Caldera

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In the late 1990s, anthropologist Stanley Ambrose proposed that a volcanic winter induced by this eruption reduced the human population to about 2,000–20...

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List of largest volcanic eruptions

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Population bottleneck

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Ambrose SH (June 1998). "Late Pleistocene human population bottlenecks, volcanic winter, and differentiation of modern humans". Journal of Human Evolution...

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Hekla 3 eruption

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7.3 km3 of volcanic rock into the atmosphere, placing its Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) at 5. This would have caused a volcanic winter, cooling temperatures...

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