Strong constraints on aerosol-cloud interactions from volcanic eruptions.

• Main Authors: Malavelle, Florent F, Haywood, Jim M, Jones, Andy, Gettelman, Andrew, Clarisse, Lieven, Bauduin, Sophie, Allan, Richard P, Karset, Inger Helene H, Kristjánsson, Jón Egill, Oreopoulos, Lazaros, Cho, Nayeong, Lee, Dongmin, Bellouin, Nicolas, Boucher, Olivier, Grosvenor, Daniel P, Carslaw, Ken S, Dhomse, Sandip, Mann, Graham W, Schmidt, Anja, Coe, Hugh, Hartley, Margaret E, Dalvi, Mohit, Hill, Adrian A, Johnson, Ben T, Johnson, Colin E, Knight, Jeff R, O'Connor, Fiona M, Partridge, Daniel G, Stier, Philip, Myhre, Gunnar, Platnick, Steven, Stephens, Graeme L, Takahashi, Hanii, Thordarson, Thorvaldur
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2017
• Subjects: 0401 Atmospheric Sciences; Holuhraun; Iceland
• Online Access: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/296667; https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.43715

Aerosols have a potentially large effect on climate, particularly through their interactions with clouds, but the magnitude of this effect is highly uncertain. Large volcanic eruptions produce sulfur dioxide, which in turn produces aerosols; these eruptions thus represent a natural experiment throug...