GC11C:
Understanding the Effects of Volcanic Eruptions: From Plume Evolution to Climate and Societal Impacts I


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Session ID#: 59063

Session Description:
Volcanic eruption plumes display a variety of environmental impacts, ranging from deterioration of local air quality up to effects on the global climate. To understand these ramifications, eruption source parameters, plume development, and transport of volcanic aerosols and gases must be ascertained. Incorporation of observed and modeled plume characteristics into general circulation models (GCM) allow the long-term effects of volcanic eruptions to be inferred. In this session we welcome studies of the composition, distribution, transport, and microphysical evolution of volcanic plumes, as well as their impacts on the environment, climate and society, through remote sensing, plume models, GCMs, and Earth System Models.
Primary Convener:  Valentina Aquila, American University, Department of Environmental Science, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Allegra N. LeGrande, NASA GISS 568, New York, United States, Thomas Jacques Aubry, University of British Columbia, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada and Brian Zambri, Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Valentina Aquila, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States
Chairs:  Thomas Jacques Aubry, University of British Columbia, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada and Valentina Aquila, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Thomas Jacques Aubry, University of British Columbia, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

0370 Volcanic effects [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
4313 Extreme events [NATURAL HAZARDS]
8408 Volcano/climate interactions [VOLCANOLOGY]
8409 Atmospheric effects [VOLCANOLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The Climate Responses to Past and Future Explosive Volcanism in CESM Climate Model Simulations (Invited) (443207)
Bette L Otto-Bliesner1, Esther C Brady1, John Fasullo2, Samantha Stevenson3 and Robert A Tomas4, (1)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (2)NCAR, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (3)University of California Santa Barbara, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, Santa Barbara, United States, (4)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
Volcanic radiative forcing from 1979 to 2015 (431671)
Anja Schmidt, University of Cambridge, Department of Geography, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Michael J Mills, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry, Observations, and Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Steven Ghan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, Jonathan M Gregory, Met Office Hadley Centre and National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, Richard P Allan, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, Timothy Andrews, Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom, Charles Bardeen, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, Andrew J Conley, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling, Boulder, CO, United States, Piers Forster, University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom, Andrew Gettelman, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Robert W Portmann, Retired, Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, Susan Solomon, MIT/EAPS, Cambridge, United States and Brian Toon, University of Colorado at Boulder, ATOC/LASP, Boulder, CO, United States
Linking eruption source parameters with volcanic gas and ash distribution in volcanic umbrella clouds: insights from the 3D plume model ASHEE. (Invited) (394113)
Matteo Cerminara, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Palermo, Italy
Using a Plume Box Model to Resolve the Transition Between the Volcanic Plume and the Model Grid of WACCM/CARMA (422471)
Dr. Margot Clyne, PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Brian Toon, University of Colorado at Boulder, ATOC/LASP, Boulder, CO, United States, Yunqian Zhu, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States and Mark Jellinek, Univ British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Investigating synchrony between volcanism and glacial cycles through tephra layers in the North Pacific (422319)
Sarah E Myhre, University of Washington Seattle, Seattle, WA, UNITED STATES, Marisa Julia Borreggine, University of Washington Seattle Campus, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States, Leif Karlstrom, University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, Eugene, OR, United States, Summer Kate Praetorius, Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States and Curtis A. Deutsch, University of Washington Seattle Campus, School of Oceanography, Seattle, United States
Measuring volcanic plume from space using satellite thermal infrared spectrometers. (Invited) (383621)
Elisa Carboni1, Isabelle Taylor2, Lucy Ventress3, Gemma S Prata4, Tamsin Mather5, Roy Gordon Grainger2 and Nicolas Theys6, (1)Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, STFC, Didcot, United Kingdom, (2)University of Oxford, Sub-Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom, (3)University of Oxford, Physics - AOPP, Oxford, United Kingdom, (4)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, (5)University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom, (6)Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium
Aircraft observations of volcanic plumes in the troposphere and stratosphere (409370)
Andrew W Rollins, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States
Societal Impacts of Volcanic-Related Climatic Shocks in the Northern Baltic Sea Region prior to Industrialization (Invited) (404989)
Heli Huhtamaa, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; University Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Aerosol Evolution and Global Stratospheric Circulation Impacts of the 1783–1784 Laki Volcanic Eruption in Iceland (398238)
Alan Robock, Rutgers University, Department of Environmental Sciences, New Brunswick, United States, Brian Zambri, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Michael J Mills, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry, Observations, and Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States and Anja Schmidt, University of Cambridge, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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