Dear colleagues,
We would like to announce our session, “Understanding the Climatic and Societal Impacts of Past and Future Explosive Volcanism” (GC093), at the 2018 AGU Fall Meeting (10-14 December, 2018). We invite you to submit an abstract and to inform colleagues who may have an interest in this session. See the links below for abstract submissions and more details about the session.
https://fallmeeting.agu.org/20
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm1
GC093: Understanding the Climatic and Societal Impacts of Past and Future Explosive Volcanism
Stratovolcanic eruptions drive regional and global climate changes on seasonal to annual timescales, with clusters of eruptions or exceptional events potentially creating multidecadal climate anomalies. Because of the scarcity of observable large-magnitude, explosive eruptions in the satellite era, characterization of volcanic climatic impacts relies heavily upon a combination of aerosol radiative forcing reconstructions, historical and paleoclimate evidence, and global aerosol and climate model simulations, all of which have inherent limitations and uncertainties. The session focuses on five key areas: (1) the reconstruction of volcanic forcing; (2) climate reconstruction and identification of mechanisms of volcanically-forced climate variability; (3) uncertainties in the simulations of volcanic events by current global aerosol models (including their evaluation against stratospheric aerosol observations and proxy reconstructions); (4) volcanic impacts on human societies; and (5) the role of volcanic eruptions in understanding future climate variability and predictability. Studies that bridge multiple focus areas are particularly welcome.
Brian Zambri, Rutgers University
Allegra N. LeGrande, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Alan Robock, Rutgers University
robock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxVolcano Listserv is a collaborative venture among Arizona State University (ASU), Portland State University (PSU), the Global Volcanism Program (GVP) of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, and the International Association for Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI).
ASU - http://www.asu.edu/ PSU - http://pdx.edu/ GVP - http://www.volcano.si.edu/ IAVCEI - http://www.iavcei.org/
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