Volcanic stratospheric sulfur injection between 1733 and 1895 CE based on the eVolv2k-plus-D4i ice-core eruption catalogue

• Main Authors: Sigl, Michael, McConnell, Joseph R, Toohey, Matthew
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2023
• Subjects: Age; D4; Day; Eruption; Greenland; Ice core; ICEDRILL; Ice drill; LATITUDE; Little Ice Age; Month; radiative forcing; Reference/source; sulfate; Sulfur; Volcanic explosivity index; Volcanic stratospheric sulphur injection; standard deviation; volcanism; Year of eruption; McConnel; Antarc*; Antarctica; Arctic; Greenland ice core; ice core; NGRIP
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.960975; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.960975

Between 1733 and 1895, a total of 35 additional volcanic eruptions were detected in the new high-resolution measurements (D4i dataset: "Greenland ice-core non-sea-salt sulfur concentrations and calculated volcanic sulfate deposition (1733-1900 CE)" (PANGAEA, doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.960977) of the D4 ice core (McConnel et al., 2007). For the same time period only 25 volcanic eruptions had previously been detected using an ice-core array from Greenland (including NEEM-2011-S1 and NGRIP) and Antarctica, making up the eVolv2k database [Toohey and Sigl, 2017]. 21 volcanic events in D4i are found to match events in the eVolv2k database, 8 tropical events and 13 Northern Hemisphere extratropical (NHET) events. Based on linear fits of eVolv2k volcanic stratospheric sulfur injections (VSSI) to the cumulative D4i sulfate deposition rates, we derive scaling factors to convert D4i volcanic sulfate depositions to VSSI. Fits are of high quality with R2 values of 0.91 and 0.99 for tropical and extratropical events, respectively. Of the remaining events identified in D4i but not included in eVolv2k, we find 11 that are tentatively attributable to VEI=4 events listed in the Volcanoes of the World [Global Volcanism Program, 2013] (GVP) database (e.g, Soufriere St. Vincent, and Awu in 1812; Suwanosejima in 1813; Mayon 1814; Raung 1817; Colima 1818). Although attribution is not completely certain, for these events we assume the attribution is correct and use the historically dated eruption date and location from Volcanoes of the World (Global Volcanism Program, 2013). Eruptions found in D4i which do not have a corresponding event in the GVP database could result from a number of scenarios. To avoid a potential bias by attributing these signals to either tropical latitudes (0°) or to NHET latitudes (i.e. 45°N), we represent the forcing by these unidentified events as the probability-weighted superposition of tropical and extratropical eruptions based on the measured sulfate flux. For each event we calculate the VSSI associated with the ...