How an unusual volcano is changing the earth:
In 2022, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano released an unprecedented cloud of water vapor into the ...
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Tonga volcano altered atmosphere; weather effects remain uncertainIn January 2022, more than 100 million tonnes of seawater vapor rose to 58 kilometers.
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- The January 2022 eruption was the strongest explosion ever recorded by modern instruments and propelled seawater to altitudes of up to 58 kilometers.
- A study published in May 2024 used 29 climate models and found little change in global mean temperatures, but modeled North American warming of more than 1.5 degrees Celsius and Scandinavian cooling of about one degree for several years.
- The WACCM4 model predicted a temporary enlargement of the ozone hole by two million square kilometers in the second spring and summer after the eruption, which experts actually measured in late spring 2023.
- Because the study did not include the ocean’s dynamic development, experts consider its regional temperature and precipitation findings tentative and expect further evidence from observations.
The signal could have been expected even without computer calculations, but the models have confirmed the effect once again and, above all, quantified it.— Thomas Birner, Professor of Theoretical Meteorology at LMU Munich, said that the signal could have been expected without computer calculations, and that the models confirmed and quantified the effect.
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