Timing of Holocene volcanic eruptions and their radiative aerosol forcing

Project Information

THERA

Grant agreement ID: 820047

DOI 10.3030/820047

Project closed

EC signature date 6 February 2019

Start date 1 March 2019

End date 31 August 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 978 923,00

EU contribution € 1 978 923,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAET BERN
Switzerland

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (36)

Bipolar ice-core records constrain possible dates and global radiative forcing following the ∼74 ka Toba eruption

Author(s): Jiamei Lin, Peter M. Abbott, Michael Sigl, Jørgen P. Steffensen, Robert Mulvaney, Mirko Severi, Anders Svensson
Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews, Issue 312, 108162, 2023, ISSN 0277-3791
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108162

Volcanic stratospheric sulfur injections and aerosol optical depth during the Holocene (past 11 500 years) from a bipolar ice-core array

Author(s): Michael Sigl, Matthew Toohey, Joseph R. McConnell, Jihong Cole-Dai, Mirko Severi
Published in: Earth System Science Data, Issue 14(7), 2022, Page(s) 3167-3196, ISSN 1866-3516
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/essd-14-3167-2022

Mid-to Late Holocene East Antarctic ice-core tephrochronology: Implications for reconstructing volcanic eruptions and assessing their climatic impacts over the last 5,500 years

Author(s): Peter M. Abbott, Joseph R. McConnell, Nathan J. Chellman, Sepp Kipfstuhl, Maria Hörhold, Johannes Freitag, Eliza Cook, William Hutchison, Michael Sigl
Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews, Issue 329, 2024, Page(s) 108544, ISSN 0277-3791
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108544

Changes in Northern Hemisphere extra-tropical cyclone frequency following volcanic eruptions

Author(s): L S Andreasen, J Cornér, P M Abbott, V A Sinclair, F Riede, C Timmreck
Published in: Environmental Research: Climate, Issue 3, 2024, Page(s) 025002, ISSN 2752-5295
Publisher: IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/2752-5295/ad2c0e

Stratospheric eruptions from tropical and extra-tropical volcanoes constrained using high-resolution sulfur isotopes in ice cores

Author(s): Andrea Burke, Kathryn A. Moore, Michael Sigl, Dan C. Nita, Joseph R. McConnell, Jess F. Adkins
Published in: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Issue 521, 2019, Page(s) 113-119, ISSN 0012-821X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.06.006

Volcanic climate forcing preceding the inception of the Younger Dryas: Implications for tracing the Laacher See eruption

Author(s): Peter M. Abbott, Ulrike Niemeier, Claudia Timmreck, Felix Riede, Joseph R., McConnell, Mirko Severi, Hubertus Fischer, Anders Svensson, Matthew Toohey, Frederick Reinig, Michael Sigl
Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews, Issue 274, 2021, ISSN 0277-3791
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107260

The IPCC’s reductive Common Era temperature history

Author(s): Jan Esper, Jason E. Smerdon, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Kathryn Allen, Edward R. Cook, Rosanne D’Arrigo, Sébastien Guillet, Fredrik C. Ljungqvist, Frederick Reinig, Lea Schneider, Michael Sigl, Markus Stoffel, Mirek Trnka, Rob Wilson, Ulf Büntgen
Published in: Communications Earth & Environment, Issue 5, 2024, ISSN 2662-4435
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01371-1

Decadal-to-centennial increases of volcanic aerosols from Iceland challenge the concept of a Medieval Quiet Period

Author(s): Imogen Gabriel, Gill Plunkett, Peter M. Abbott, Melanie Behrens, Andrea Burke, Nathan Chellman, Eliza Cook, Dominik Fleitmann, Maria Hörhold, William Hutchison, Joseph R. McConnell, Bergrún A. Óladóttir, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Jakub T. Sliwinski, Patrick Sugden, Birthe Twarloh, Michael Sigl
Published in: Communications Earth & Environment, Issue 5, 2024, ISSN 2662-4435
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01350-6

Comprehensive Record of Volcanic Eruptions in the Holocene (11,000 years) From the WAIS Divide, Antarctica Ice Core

Author(s): Jihong Cole‐Dai, David G. Ferris, Joshua A. Kennedy, Michael Sigl, Joseph R. McConnell, T. J. Fudge, Lei Geng, Olivia J. Maselli, Kendrick C. Taylor, Joseph M. Souney
Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Issue 126/7, 2021, ISSN 2169-897X
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2020jd032855

High‐Resolution Ice‐Core Analyses Identify the Eldgjá Eruption and a Cluster of Icelandic and Trans‐Continental Tephras Between 936 and 943 CE

Author(s): William Hutchison, Imogen Gabriel, Gill Plunkett, Andrea Burke, Patrick Sugden, Helen Innes, Siwan Davies, William M. Moreland, Kirstin Krüger, Rob Wilson, Bo M. Vinther, Dorthe Dahl‐Jensen, Johannes Freitag, Clive Oppenheimer, Nathan J. Chellman, Michael Sigl, Joseph R. McConnell
Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Issue 129, 2024, ISSN 2169-897X
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2023jd040142

Prominent role of volcanism in Common Era climate variability and human history

Author(s): Ulf Büntgen, Dominique Arseneault, Étienne Boucher, Olga V. Churakova (Sidorova), Fabio Gennaretti, Alan Crivellaro, Malcolm K. Hughes, Alexander V. Kirdyanov, Lara Klippel, Paul J. Krusic, Hans W. Linderholm, Fredrik C. Ljungqvist, Josef Ludescher, Michael McCormick, Vladimir S. Myglan, Kurt Nicolussi, Alma Piermattei, Clive Oppenheimer, Frederick Reinig, Michael Sigl, Eugene A. Vaganov, Jan Es
Published in: Dendrochronologia, Issue 64, 2020, Page(s) 125757, ISSN 1125-7865
Publisher: Archeonatura
DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2020.125757

The significance of volcanic ash in Greenland ice cores during the Common Era

Author(s): Gill Plunkett, Michael Sigl, Joseph R. McConnell, Jonathan R. Pilcher, Nathan J. Chellman
Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews, Issue 301 (107936), 2023, ISSN 0277-3791
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107936

Volcanism and the Greenland ice cores: A new tephrochronological framework for the last glacial-interglacial transition (LGIT) based on cryptotephra deposits in three ice cores

Author(s): Eliza Cook; Peter M. Abbott; Nick J.G. Pearce; Seyedhamidreza Mojtabavi; Anders Svensson; Anna J. Bourne; Sune O. Rasmussen; Inger K. Seierstad; Bo M. Vinther; Joseph Harrison; Elliott Street; Jørgen Peder Steffensen; Frank Wilhelms; Siwan M. Davies
Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews, Issue 292, 107596, 2022, ISSN 0277-3791
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107596

Precise date for the Laacher See eruption synchronizes the Younger Dryas

Author(s): Frederick Reinig, Lukas Wacker, Olaf Jöris, Clive Oppenheimer, Giulia Guidobaldi, Daniel Nievergelt, Florian Adolphi, Paolo Cherubini, Stefan Engels, Jan Esper, Alexander Land, Christine Lane, Hardy Pfanz, Sabine Remmele, Michael Sigl, Adam Sookdeo, Ulf Büntgen
Published in: Nature, Issue 595/7865, 2021, Page(s) 66-69, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03608-x

Geochemical ice-core constraints on the timing and climatic impact of Aniakchak II (1628 BCE) and Thera (Minoan) volcanic eruptions

Author(s): Charlotte Pearson; Michael Sigl; Andrea Burke; Siwan Davies; Andrei Kurbatov; Mirko Severi; Jihong Cole-Dai; Helen Innes; Paul G Albert; Meredith Helmick
Published in: PNAS Nexus, Issue Volume 1, Issue 2, 2022, ISSN 2752-6542
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac048

Extreme climate after massive eruption of Alaska’s Okmok volcano in 43 BCE and effects on the late Roman Republic and Ptolemaic Kingdom

Author(s): Joseph R. McConnell, Michael Sigl, Gill Plunkett, Andrea Burke, Woon Mi Kim, Christoph C. Raible, Andrew I. Wilson, Joseph G. Manning, Francis Ludlow, Nathan J. Chellman, Helen M. Innes, Zhen Yang, Jessica F. Larsen, Janet R. Schaefer, Sepp Kipfstuhl, Seyedhamidreza Mojtabavi, Frank Wilhelms, Thomas Opel, Hanno Meyer, Jørgen Peder Steffensen
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 117/27, 2020, Page(s) 15443-15449, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2002722117

High sensitivity of summer temperatures to stratospheric sulfur loading from volcanoes in the Northern Hemisphere

Author(s): Andrea Burke, Helen M. Innes, Laura Crick, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Michael P. Byrne, William Hutchison, Joseph R. McConnell, Kathryn A. Moore, James W. B. Rae, Michael Sigl, Rob Wilson
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 120, 2023, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2221810120

Volcanic climate impacts can act as ultimate and proximate causes of Chinese dynastic collapse

Author(s): Chaochao Gao, Francis Ludlow, John A. Matthews, Alexander R. Stine, Alan Robock, Yuqing Pan, Richard Breen, Brianán Nolan, Michael Sigl
Published in: Communications Earth & Environment, Issue 2, 2021, Page(s) 234, ISSN 2662-4435
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s43247-021-00284-7

Lunar eclipses illuminate timing and climate impact of medieval volcanism

Author(s): Sébastien Guillet, Christophe Corona, Clive Oppenheimer, Franck Lavigne, Myriam Khodri, Francis Ludlow, Michael Sigl, Matthew Toohey, Paul S Atkins, Zhen Yang, Tomoko Muranaka, Nobuko Horikawa, Markus Stoffel
Published in: Nature, Issue 616(7955), 2023, Page(s) 90-95, ISSN 1476-4687
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05751-z

Bipolar volcanic synchronization of abrupt climate change in Greenland and Antarctic ice cores during the last glacial period

Author(s): Anders Svensson; Dorthe Dahl-Jensen; Jørgen Peder Steffensen; Thomas Blunier; Sune O. Rasmussen; Bo M. Vinther; Paul Vallelonga; Emilie Capron; Vasileios Gkinis; Eliza Cook; Helle Astrid Kjær; Raimund Muscheler; Sepp Kipfstuhl; Frank Wilhelms; Thomas F. Stocker; Hubertus Fischer; Florian Adolphi; Tobias Erhardt; Michael Sigl; Amaelle Landais; Frédéric Parrenin; Christo Buizert; Joseph R. McCon
Published in: Climate of the Past, 2020, Page(s) 1565–1580, ISSN 1814-9324
Publisher: European Geosciences Union (EGU).

High-frequency climate forcing causes prolonged cold periods in the Holocene

Author(s): Evelien J. C. van Dijk, Johann Jungclaus, Michael Sigl, Claudia Timmreck, Kirstin Krüger
Published in: Communications Earth & Environment, Issue 5, 2024, ISSN 2662-4435
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01380-0

Statistical characteristics of extreme daily precipitation during 1501 BCE–1849 CE in the Community Earth System Model

Author(s): Woon Mi Kim, Richard Blender, Michael Sigl, Martina Messmer, Christoph Raible
Published in: Climate of the Past, Issue 17, 2021, Page(s) 2031-2053, ISSN 1814-9324
Publisher: European Geosciences Union (EGU).
DOI: 10.5194/cp-17-2031-2021

The international tephra research group ‘Commission on Tephrochronology’ and its activities – the first 60 years

Author(s): David J. Lowe; Peter M. Abbott; Takehiko Suzuki; Britta J. L. Jensen
Published in: History of Geo- and Space Sciences, Issue 13, 2022, ISSN 1814-9332
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/hgss-2021-22

Holocene vegetation transitions and their climatic drivers in MPI-ESM1.2

Author(s): Anne Dallmeyer, Martin Claussen, Stephan J. Lorenz, Michael Sigl, Matthew Toohey, Ulrike Herzschuh,
Published in: Climate of the Past, Issue 17, 2021, Page(s) 2481-2513, ISSN 1814-9324
Publisher: European Geosciences Union (EGU).
DOI: 10.5194/cp-17-2481-2021

The Role of Small to Moderate Volcanic Eruptions in the Early 19th Century Climate

Author(s): Shih‐Wei Fang, Michael Sigl, Matthew Toohey, Johann Jungclaus, Davide Zanchettin, Claudia Timmreck
Published in: Geophysical Research Letters, Issue 50, 2024, ISSN 0094-8276
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2023gl105307

Seasonal temperatures in West Antarctica during the Holocene

Author(s): Tyler R Jones, Kurt M Cuffey, William H G Roberts, Bradley R Markle, Eric J Steig, Max; Stevens, Paul J Valdes, T J Fudge, Michael Sigl, Abigail G Hughes, Valerie Morris, Bruce H Vaughn, Joshua Garland, Bo M Vinther, Kevin S Rozmiarek, Chloe A Brashear, James W C White
Published in: Nature, Issue 613(7943), 2023, Page(s) 292-297, ISSN 1476-4687
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05411-8

Variable Response in Alpine Tree-Ring Stable Isotopes Following Volcanic Eruptions in the Tropics and Iceland

Author(s): Tito Arosio, Stéphane Affolter, Kurt Nicolussi, Michael Sigl, Malin Michelle Ziehmer-Wenz, Christian Schlüchter, Emmanuel Schaad, Rafael Stähli, Markus Christian Leuenberger
Published in: Geosciences, Issue 12(10), 2022, ISSN 2076-3263
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/geosciences12100371

Relative importance of forcings and feedbacks in the Holocene temperature conundrum

Author(s): Peter O. Hopcroft, Paul J. Valdes, Bryan N. Shuman, Matthew Toohey, Michael Sigl
Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews, Issue 319, 2024, Page(s) 108322, ISSN 0277-3791
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108322

No evidence for tephra in Greenland from the historic eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE: implications for geochronology and paleoclimatology

Author(s): Gill Plunkett, Michael Sigl, Hans F. Schwaiger, Emma L. Tomlinson, Matthew Toohey, Joseph R. McConnell, Jonathan R. Pilcher, Takeshi Hasegawa, Claus Siebe
Published in: Climate of the Past, Issue 18, 2022, Page(s) 45-65, ISSN 1814-9324
Publisher: European Geosciences Union (EGU).
DOI: 10.5194/cp-18-45-2022

The magnitude and impact of the 431 CE Tierra Blanca Joven eruption of Ilopango, El Salvador

Author(s): Victoria C. Smith, Antonio Costa, Gerardo Aguirre-Díaz, Dario Pedrazzi, Andrea Scifo, Gill Plunkett, Mattieu Poret, Pierre-Yves Tournigand, Dan Miles, Michael W. Dee, Joseph R. McConnell, Ivan Sunyé-Puchol, Pablo Dávila Harris, Michael Sigl, Jonathan R. Pilcher, Nathan Chellman, Eduardo Gutiérrez
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 117/42, 2020, Page(s) 26061-26068, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2003008117

Smoking guns and volcanic ash: the importance of sparse tephras in Greenland ice cores

Author(s): Gill Plunkett, Michael Sigl, Jonathan R. Pilcher, Joseph R. McConnell, Nathan Chellman, J.P. Steffensen, Ulf Büntgen
Published in: Polar Research, Issue 39/0, 2020, ISSN 0800-0395
Publisher: Norsk Polarinstitutt/Norwegian Polar Institut
DOI: 10.33265/polar.v39.3511

The 852/3 CE Mount Churchill eruption: examining the potential climatic and societal impacts and the timing of the Medieval Climate Anomaly in the North Atlantic region

Author(s): Helen Mackay, Gill Plunkett, Britta Jensen, Thomas J. Aubry, Christophe Corona, Woon Mi Kim, Matthew Toohey, Michael Sigl, Markus Stoffel, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Christoph Raible, Matthew S. M. Bolton, Joseph G. Manning, Timothy P. Newfield, Nicola Di Cosmo, Francis Ludlow, Conor Kostick, Zhen Yang, Lisa Coyle McClung, Matthew Amesbury, Alistair Monteath, Paul D. M. Hughes, Pete G. Langdon, Dan Cha
Published in: Climate of the Past, Issue 18(6), 2022, Page(s) 1475-1508, ISSN 1814-9332
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/cp-18-1475-2022

Volcanic glass from the 1.8 ka Taupō eruption (New Zealand) detected in Antarctic ice at ~ 230 CE

Author(s): Stephen B. Piva, Simon J. Barker, Nels A. Iverson, V. Holly L. Winton, Nancy A. N. Bertler, Michael Sigl, Colin J. N. Wilson, Nelia W. Dunbar, Andrei V. Kurbatov, Lionel Carter, Bruce L. A. Charlier, Rewi M. Newnham
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 13, 2023, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-42602-3

Climatic, weather, and socio-economic conditions corresponding to the mid-17th-century eruption cluster.

Author(s): Markus Stoffel, Christophe Corona, Francis Ludlow, Michael Sigl, Heli Huhtamaa, Emmanuel Garnier, Samuli Helama, Sébastien Guillet, Arlene Crampsie, Katrin Kleemann, Chantal Camenisch, Joseph McConnell, Chaochao Gao
Published in: Climate of the Past, 2022, ISSN 1814-9332
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/cp-18-1083-2022

Cryptotephra from the Icelandic Veiðivötn 1477 CE eruption in a Greenland ice core: confirming the dating of volcanic events in the 1450s CE and assessing the eruption's climatic impact

Author(s): Peter M. Abbott, Gill Plunkett, Christophe Corona, Nathan J. Chellman, Joseph R. McConnell, John R. Pilcher, Markus Stoffel, Michael Sigl
Published in: Climate of the Past, Issue 17/2, 2021, Page(s) 565-585, ISSN 1814-9332
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/cp-17-565-2021

Antarctic surface temperature and elevation during the Last Glacial Maximum

Author(s): Christo Buizert, T. J. Fudge, William H. G. Roberts, Eric J. Steig, Sam Sherriff-Tadano, Catherine Ritz, Eric Lefebvre, Jon Edwards, Kenji Kawamura, Ikumi Oyabu, Hideaki Motoyama, Emma C. Kahle, Tyler R. Jones, Ayako Abe-Ouchi, Takashi Obase, Carlos Martin, Hugh Corr, Jeffrey P. Severinghaus, Ross Beaudette, Jenna A. Epifanio, Edward J. Brook, Kaden Martin, Jérôme Chappellaz, Shuji Aoki, Takakiy
Published in: Science, Issue 372/6546, 2021, Page(s) 1097-1101, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.abd2897