Observations of a stratospheric aerosol veil from a tropical volcanic eruption in December 1808:is this the Unknown ~1809 eruption?

• Published in: Climate of the Past
• Main Authors: Guevara, Alvaro, Williams, Caroline A, Hendy, Erica, Rust, Alison C, Cashman, Katharine V
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Hipólito; ice core
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1983/dce251e6-7b6c-454e-91d0-c52ff172adad; https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publications/dce251e6-7b6c-454e-91d0-c52ff172adad; https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-10-1707-2014; https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/files/124748345/cp_10_1707_2014.pdf; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84907395020&partnerID=8YFLogxK

The Unknown eruption of 1808/1809 was the second most explosive SO 2 -rich volcanic eruption in the last two centuries, eclipsed only by the cataclysmic VEI 7 Tambora eruption in April 1815. However, no eyewitness accounts of the event, and therefore its location, or the atmospheric optical effects...