Mount Agung Eruption Provides Test of a Global Climatic Perturbation
- 10 March 1978
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 199 (4333), 1065-1068
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.199.4333.1065
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.Keywords
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