The Tambora eruption in 1815 provides a test on possible global climatic and chemical perturbations in the past

A coupled one-dimensional radiative-convective-photochemical diffusion model, which takes into account the influence of ocean inertia on global radiative perturbations is used to investigate the possible climatic and other atmospheric effects of a major volcanic eruption, thought to be similar in magnitude to that of the Tambora eruption, Indonesia, which took place in 1815. A volcanic cloud was introduced in the model stratosphere between 20–25 km and the global average peak aerosol optical thickness was assumed to be 0.25. Both the aerosol optical thickness and aerosol composition, which determine the optical properties, were allowed to vary in the model atmosphere during the life cycle of the volcanic cloud. The results indicate that the global average surface temperature decreases steadily from the date of eruption (7–12 April 1815) with maximum cooling of 1° K occurring in the spring of 1816. The calculations also show significant warming of the stratosphere, with temperature increasing up to 15° K at 25 km in less than six months after the date of eruption. The important effects of the Tambora eruption on stratospheric ozone and UV-B radiation at the surface are also mentioned.     

公元1500—2000年印度尼西亚—菲律宾强火山喷发对中国中东部旱涝格局的影响*

强火山活动是气候变化的重要自然驱动因素,可导致中国降水出现年际或年代际变化,甚至极端的旱涝现象。探究位于中国邻域的印度尼西亚—菲律宾一带的强火山喷发与中国旱涝分布格局的关系,有助于阐释中国旱涝发生的时空规律及机制,为预测未来火山爆发可能导致的降水异常提供借鉴。本文基于1500—2000年期间世界强火山活动和中国旱涝资料,运用时序叠加分析的方法辨识了印度尼西亚—菲律宾一带的强火山喷发后中国旱涝在年际尺度上的时空变化特征,并对1815年Tambora火山喷发进行案例分析。结果表明印度尼西亚—菲律宾一带的强火山喷发对中国的旱涝格局有一定的影响:强火山喷发后第0年至第2年,中国中东部各站点的整体变化为偏涝;在第3年,整体出现了偏旱的转变,且变化幅度相比其他年份较大;就地区而言,喷发后华北、华南地区分别出现了由旱转涝、由涝转旱的变化,并且这些变化大概持续了2~3年,随后2个区域均恢复了喷发前的旱涝趋势;印度尼西亚1815年Tambora火山喷发后0~3年,中国以涝情为主,但发生涝情的区域逐年在发生变化。     

The global impact of the Minoan eruption of Santorini, Greece

 The Minoan eruption of Santorini was a large-magnitude natural event. However, in terms of scale it ranks smaller in erupted volume and eruptive intensity than the historical eruption of Tambora in 1815 AD, and smaller in sulphur emission and, by inference, climatic effects than both the Tambora and Mt. Pinatubo, 1991, eruptions. Eruption statistics for the past 2000 years indicate that Minoan-size eruptions typically occur at a rate of several per thousand years. Eruptions resulting in a Minoan-scale injection of sulphur to the stratosphere occur far more frequently – at a rate of one or two per century. Inferences of massive sociological, religious and political impacts from such eruptions owe more to mythology than reality. Received: 28 November 1995 · Accepted: 9 January 1996     

Radiative forcing and climate impact resulting from SO2 injections based on a 200,000-year record of Plinian eruptions along the Central American Volcanic Arc

We present for the first time a self-consistent methodology connecting volcanological field data to global climate model estimates for a regional time series of explosive volcanic events. Using the petrologic method, we estimated SO₂ emissions from 36 detected Plinian volcanic eruptions occurring at the Central American Volcanic Arc (CAVA) during the past 200,000 years. Together with simple parametrized relationships collected from past studies, we derive estimates of global maximum volcanic aerosol optical depth (AOD) and radiative forcing (RF) describing the effect of each eruption on radiation reaching the Earth’s surface. In parallel, AOD and RF time series for selected CAVA eruptions are simulated with the global aerosol model MAECHAM5-HAM, which shows a relationship between stratospheric SO₂ injection and maximum global mean AOD that is linear for smaller volcanic eruptions (<5 Mt SO₂) and nonlinear for larger ones (≥5 Mt SO₂) and is qualitatively and quantitatively consistent with the relationship used in the simple parametrized approximation. Potential climate impacts of the selected CAVA eruptions are estimated using an earth system model of intermediate complexity by RF time series derived by (1) directly from the global aerosol model and (2) from the simple parametrized approximation assuming a 12-month exponential decay of global AOD. We find that while the maximum AOD and RF values are consistent between the two methods, their temporal evolutions are significantly different. As a result, simulated global maximum temperature anomalies and the duration of the temperature response depend on which RF time series is used, varying between 2 and 3 K and 60 and 90 years for the largest eruption of the CAVA dataset. Comparing the recurrence time of eruptions, based on the CAVA dataset, with the duration of climate impacts, based on the model results, we conclude that cumulative impacts due to successive eruptions are unlikely. The methodology and results presented here can be used to calculate approximate volcanic forcings and potential climate impacts from sulfur emissions, sulfate aerosol or AOD data for any eruption that injects sulfur into the tropical stratosphere.     

The great 1815 eruption of Tambora and future risks from large‐scale volcanism

The year 2015 marks the bicentenary of the largest eruption in recent historic times: the 10–11 April 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora, Indonesia. Two hundred years after the eruption, an incomplete or inaccurate record of large eruptions over the past millennia, and uncertainties in determining the true sizes of eruptions, hamper our ability to predict when the next eruption of this scale may occur. Such events would have catastrophic effects locally and, possibly, world‐wide. The problem is compounded by a lack of detailed knowledge of how and over what timescales large magma reservoirs that feed such eruptions grow and assemble, and of the surface manifestations of these processes recorded through geophysical or geochemical monitoring techniques.     

A model study on the decay of volcanic aerosol layer and verification with Pinatubo and El Chichon data

The time evolution of stratospheric aerosol layer formed after a volcanic eruption is studied taking into account the aerosol microphysical processes of growth, coagulation and sedimentation. Using a simple model we could explain the observed evolution of the Pinatubo volcanic layer which decayed in about 3 years. The experimental data obtained by Nd:YAG backscatter lidar over Ahmedabad further supports this finding. The data obtained after the El Chichon volcanic eruption also showed that the El Chichon aerosol layer decayed in about 3 years time. Thus, though the amount of SO₂ injected has been higher, in the case of Pinatubo, about two to three times more than El Chichon, it has resulted in the production of larger aerosol particles due to faster growth and coagulation processes, and subsequently a faster removal rate, to give more or less a similar background aerosol amount at the stratosphere in about 3 years time.     

Tall clouds from small eruptions: the sensitivity of eruption height and fine ash content to tropospheric instability

A critical factor in successfully monitoring and forecasting volcanic ash dispersion for aviation safety is the height reached by eruption clouds, which is affected by environmental factors, such as wind shear and atmospheric instability. Following earlier work using the Active Tracer High Resolution Atmospheric Model for strong Plinian eruptions, this study considered a range of eruption strengths in different atmospheres. The results suggest that relatively weak volcanic eruptions in the moist tropics can trigger deep convection that transports volcanic material to 15–20 km. For the same volcanic strength there can be ~9 km difference between eruption heights in moist tropical and dry subpolar environments (a larger height difference than previously suggested), which appears consistent with observations. These results suggest that eruption intensity should not be estimated from eruption height alone for tropospheric eruptions and also that the average height of volcanic eruptions may increase if the tropical atmospheric belt widens in a changing climate. Ash aggregation is promoted by hydrometeors (particularly liquid water), so the smaller modelled eruptions in moist atmospheres, which have a relatively small ash content for their height and water content, result in a relatively small proportion of fine ash in the dispersing cloud when compared to a dry atmosphere. This in turn makes the ash clouds much more difficult to detect using remote sensing than those in dry atmospheres. Overall, a weak eruption in the tropics is more likely to produce a plume above cruising levels for civil aviation, harder to detect and track, but with a lower concentration of fine ash than a mid-latitude or polar equivalent. There is currently no defined ‘acceptable’ concentration of ash for aircraft, but as these results suggest low-grade encounters in the tropics from undetected clouds are likely, it would be desirable to explore that issue.     

Crustal structure beneath two seismic broadband stations revealed from teleseismic P-wave receiver function analysis in the Virunga volcanic area,Western Rift Valley of Africa

The shear velocity structure beneath the Virunga volcanic area was estimated by using an average solution in the time domain inversion of stacked teleseismic receiver functions provided by two seismic broadband stations KUNENE (KNN) and KIBUMBA (KBB). These two stations are 29 km apart and located at the eastern and western escarpment of the Western Rift Valley of Africa in the Virunga area, respectively. The velocity model was presented as P-wave velocity models. From these models, the crust mantle transition zone beneath the area sampled by KNN and KBB in the Virunga area was determined at depth from about 36 to 39 km and 30 to 41 km, respectively. A low velocity zone was observed below stations KNN and KBB at depths between 20–30 km and 18–28 km, respectively, and with average velocity 5.9 km/s and 6.0 km/s. This low velocity zone may probably related to a magma chamber or a melt-rich sill. The models show also high velocity material (6.8–7.4 km/s) lying beneath stations KNN and KBB at depths 3–20 km and 3–10 km, respectively, which is indicative of magma cumulates within the volcanic edifice. The result obtained in this study was applied to the determination of epicentres during the period prior to the 27 November 2006 Nyamuragira eruption. This eruption was preceded by a swarm of hybrid volcanic earthquakes with clear P-waves onset. Using the receiver function model was found to improve the location of events. The located events correlate well with the location of the eruptive site and data provided by the INSAR observations of surface deformation associated with eruption.     

火山玻璃风化层的透射电镜研究

利用透射电镜(TEM)和X射线能谱(EDX)研究了长白山天池火山1000年和4000年前两次大喷发产生的火山玻璃风化层特征.TEM分析显示,4000年前大喷发浮岩中的火山玻璃风化层平均厚度3.7 mm,1000年前大喷发浮岩中的火山玻璃风化层平均厚度为1.0 mm.EDX分析显示,两次大喷发浮岩中的火山玻璃风化层化学组成与火山玻璃相比富Al、Fe,而si减少.火山玻璃风化层富Al发生在Al的浓度较高的中到弱酸溶液中(pH=5～6),火山玻璃表面形成含有少量的非晶质的Al、Si、Fe物质,这些非品质的次生物质是火山玻璃风化早期阶段形成的.天池火山喷发物中火山玻璃的微观特征的差异可能与火山喷发年代和喷发后的环境有关,研究天池火山不同期次喷发物中火山玻璃的微观特征具有一定的理论和实际应用价值.     

Observations of volcanic emissions from space: current and future perspectives

Volcanoes worldwide pose a major threat to humans at both local and global scales. The effective monitoring of volcanoes is essential to manage and reduce risk associated with the threat that they pose. The measurement of volcanic cloud composition can provide important clues to the underlying volcanic processes and can be indicative of impending eruption. Hazards posed by plumes to humans and animals are significant, as well as the potential climatic impacts and the threat to aircraft by the ingestion of volcanic ash all justify careful monitoring. Recent advances in instrument technology have allowed for high resolution monitoring of volcanic clouds from satellite-based instruments. There exists a suite of instruments with varying spatial, spectral and temporal resolutions, which when used in conjunction can provide detailed information about cloud properties. Such instruments have the capability to quantify sulphur dioxide, ash and aerosol content as well as the spatial and vertical distribution of species. Here we present an overview of the range of instruments useful for such monitoring, outline their functionality and describe the potential of future missions.     

月球南海地区玄武岩厚度估算

月海玄武岩是月幔部分熔融喷出月表而形成的,其厚度可以反映月海玄武岩源区的深度。研究月海玄武岩厚度,对进一步认识月球区域岩浆作用或火山作用的演化历史具有不可替代的作用,也能够为整个月球的热演化和岩浆演化提供基本的约束条件。同时,玄武岩厚度可以用以推测月球内部产生玄武岩岩浆的体积,对月球火山作用的岩浆喷发总量以及月球内部的热状态具有指示作用。本文基于多源遥感数据,综合利用撞击坑的形貌特征与月坑挖掘深度法对南海地区撞击坑内(crater)和撞击坑间(intercrater)两类玄武岩地层的厚度进行了估算,并对玄武岩的面积、体积、年龄及岩浆活动做了简单分析。研究结果表明：南海地区撞击坑内的玄武岩厚度变化范围为0.11~4.75 km,平均值约为1.32 km,玄武岩的出露面积和出露体积分别为57.06~10 791.66 km2和10.25~51 260.38 km3;撞击坑间的玄武岩厚度变化范围为0.01~2.18 km,平均值约为0.34 km,玄武岩的出露面积和出露体积分别为6 487.89~33 170.55 km2和2 711.97~11 609.69 km3。因此,南海地区玄武岩厚度的变化范围分布在0.01~4.75 km,平均厚度约为600 m,出露的玄武岩总面积约为2.12×105 km2,总体积约为2.71×105 km3。通过分析南海地区的玄武岩年龄及分布特征,发现南海地区内的岩浆喷发活动主要集中发生在雨海纪至爱拉托逊纪时期,且其局部区域存在多次岩浆喷发及充填过程,但由于晚期玄武岩岩浆的喷发总量不足以覆盖早期已形成的玄武岩,导致晚期玄武岩与早期玄武岩同时存在于同一个玄武岩单元内。南海地区独特的玄武岩分布特征也与地形有关。     

Gigantic volcanic eruptions and climatic change in the early Eocene

23 layers of altered volcanic ash (bentonites) originating from the North Atlantic Igneous Province have been recorded in early Eocene deposits of the Austrian Alps, about 1,900 km away from the source area. The Austrian bentonites are distal equivalents of the “main ash-phase” in Denmark and the North Sea basin. We have calculated the total eruption volume of this series as 21,000 km³, which occurred in 600,000 years. The most powerful single eruption of this series took place 54.0 million years ago (Ma) and ejected ca. 1,200 km³ of ash material, which makes it one of the largest basaltic pyroclastic eruptions in geological history. The clustering of eruptions must have significantly affected the incoming solar radiation in the early Eocene by the continuous production of stratospheric dust and aerosol clouds. This hypothesis is corroborated by oxygen isotope values, which indicate a global decrease of sea surface temperatures between 1 and 2°C during this major phase of explosive volcanism.     

Discussion: Structural and stratigraphic problems of the Argylla Formation near Mary Kathleen,Queensland

Circumstantial evidence indicates that Gaussberg, an isolated, 370 m high volcanic cone on the Antarctic coast at 57°S, 89°E, is the product of subglacial eruption. The vesicular, highly potassic leucitite, of which Gaussberg is composed, has been dated by K‐Ar and fission‐track methods, the former being applied to leucite concentrates, the latter to glassy leucitite from the ropy‐textured, outer rind of a pillow‐like structure. The K‐Ar geochronology yields an average date of 56 000 ± 5000 years, jwhich is interpreted as defining the time of Gaussberg's formation. The fission‐track work yields a less precise date, which supports the K‐Ar age estimate. These new age determinations indicate that previously published K‐Ar age determinations of 20 Ma and 9 Ma for Gaussberg should be rejected.     

松辽盆地营城组火山岩相量化表征与应用

盆地火山岩及其储层的地震解释需要量化的岩相模型提供地质约束。三维揭露的盆缘剖面是实现岩相量化表征的最佳区。在松辽盆地东南隆起营城组建组剖面区开展了爆发相、喷溢相和侵出相的三维量化研究。爆发相出现在火山旋回早期,延伸千米量级、厚度百米量级,外形呈楔形尖灭状,坡度上陡下缓、呈平均15°左右的上凹形轮廓;始于热基浪亚相、向上为热基浪与空落亚相互层,终于热碎屑流亚相。喷溢相多出现在火山旋回中后期,覆于爆发相之上,延伸千米量级、厚度百米量级,外形呈凸透镜向外尖灭状,坡度上缓下陡、呈平均20°左右的上凸形轮廓;自下而上依次为下部、中部和上部亚相。侵出相出现在火山旋回后期,可见对其它相带呈切割-披覆关系的内、中、外三个亚相,侧向延伸和垂向厚度多为百米量级、通常最大不超过1km,呈顶缓缘陡的蘑菇状。用火山岩相模型约束井旁地震解释、建立岩相-地震相响应关系,可为无井区的火山岩地震识别提供模板。火山机构的后期改造只改变相序的完整性、不改变原始喷发相带间的相邻与相依性,不影响用岩相模式预测相变关系。非同源喷出物之间的叠置会干扰盆地火山岩相的解译,且使岩相模型的约束作用失效。     

Pre-eruptive storage conditions of the Holocene dacite erupted from Kizimen Volcano,Kamchatka

This study describes an investigation of the pre-eruptive conditions (T, P and fO₂) of dacite magma erupted during the KZI cycle (12,000–8400 years ago) of Kizimen Volcano, Kamchatka, the earliest, most voluminous and most explosive eruption cycle in the Kizimen record. Hydrothermal, water-saturated experiments on KZI dacite pumice coupled with titanomagnetite-ilmenite geothermometry calculations require that the KZI dacite existed at a temperature of 823 ± 20°C and pressures of 125–150 MPa immediately prior to eruption. This estimate corresponds to a lithologic contact between Miocene volcaniclastic rocks and Pliocene-Pleistocene volcanic rocks located at a depth of 5–6 km beneath the Kizimen edifice, which may have facilitated the accumulation of atypically large volumes of gas-rich dacite during the KZI cycle.     

基于FY-3A遥感数据的冰岛火山灰云识别

2010年4月至5月期间冰岛艾雅法拉火山喷发造成了欧洲航空业史无前例的瘫痪以及巨大的经济损失,其严重影响再次显示,对火山灰云进行有效监测的重要性。火山灰云是由火山碎屑物及气体组成的混合物,火山碎屑物主要由直径小于2mm的岩石、矿物、火山玻璃碎片组成,火山灰云中的气体主要包括水汽、CO2、SO2、H2S、CH4、CO、HCL、HF、HBr、和NOx等。使用具有我国自主知识产权的FY-3A/VIRR数据,对此次艾雅法拉火山喷发的不同阶段选取具有典型风向变化的日期,采用分裂窗亮温差算法(SWTD)、RGB真彩色方法、中红外波段数据等进行火山灰云的识别,并将结果与冰岛地区的火山灰监测报告以及前人的研究结果进行对比研究,结果表明:火山喷发初期火山灰云中较高含量的水汽会补偿反面吸收的影响,妨碍分裂窗亮温差算法(SWTD)对火山灰云的识别,而中红外波段数据因对高温物体的敏感性,不受水汽的影响,对喷发初期较高温度的火山灰云识别效果较好;在喷发中期,火山灰云浓度较大时三种方法均表现良好,卫星图像中火山灰云的位置信息及漂移方向均非常清晰,且同气象条件相吻合,验证了识别方法的正确性。该项结果表明,具有我国自主知识产权的FY-3A数据能够达到监测火山灰云的目的,而如何更加清晰地界定火山灰云的边界位置以及更加准确的计算出火山灰云的浓度需要进一步的深入研究。     

火山活动对南半球平流层气候异常变化的影响

文中利用逐次滤波法分析结果表明 ,火山活动能引起平流层较大幅度增温 ,对于南半球 70hPa高空气候异常变化的影响超过了总方差的 1 6 % ;火山活动影响最显著的高度是平流层 70hPa约1 5～ 2 2km高空 ,由此高度向上或向下 ,火山活动的影响都逐渐减小 ;火山活动引起平流层大气升温的同时还将引起对流层大气降温 ,其分界线大致位于对流层顶 30 0hPa附近。平流层高空气候异常变化还具有显著的 2 2a变化周期和 1 1a变化周期 ,分析认为是大气温度场对太阳磁场磁性 2 2a周期和太阳黑子 1 1a周期变化的响应 ,其方差贡献率超过 8%。     

庐江-枞阳矿集区深部结构与成矿

为探测长江中下游成矿带庐江?枞阳白垩纪火山岩盆地和铁、硫矿集区深部构造和地壳结构, 探讨成矿深部控制条件, 作者完成了穿越火山岩盆地的深反射地震剖面(记录30 s)和罗河铁矿区浅层高分辨反射地震剖面, 揭示了矿集区全地壳精细结构, 同时开展区域构造测量和应力场反演研究, 获得了新的认识。证实“耳状”的庐?枞火山岩盆地是一个沿北东向罗河断裂向东发育的非对称火山盆地, 排除了另一半被断在西侧红层之下的判断;罗河断裂是一条切穿MOHO的深断裂, 倾向南东, 是引导地幔流体和岩浆上涌和喷发的通道;鉴别出多层界面, 火山岩?侏罗系砂岩厚约4?5 km(其中火山岩厚度约3 km), 三叠系?震旦系变形层底界深度大致18?20 km, 变质基底组成中下地壳, MOHO平缓向西北倾, 深度33?31 km;追踪郯?庐断裂带的深部产状, 陡立延伸到MOHO, 宽约10 km。     

辽西阜新地区义县组的喷发旋回特征

通过581.64km的路线地质调查和对20.16km的实测剖面的研究,将辽西阜新地区义县组自下而上划分为喷发旋回Ⅰ、Ⅱ、Ⅲ、Ⅳ、Ⅴ;每个喷发旋回的下部为火山碎屑岩组成的爆发相、中上部为熔岩组成的溢流相;熔岩类型主要是玄武岩、玄武安山岩、安山岩及部分英安岩、流纹岩、珍珠岩、黑曜岩、粗安岩;各喷发旋回内部及不同喷发旋回中,具有熔岩的酸性或碱性程度向上逐渐增强的总体变化规律。义县组在紫都台—七家子地区较老河土—十家子、后新秋—苇子沟地区的火山碎屑岩的总厚度偏大,而玄武岩的发育厚度偏小,且老河土—十家子地区缺乏喷发旋回Ⅴ等,空间分布有差异性。     

The injection of sulfuric acid aerosols in the stratosphere by the El Chichón volcano and its related hazards to the international air traffic

With respect to atmospheric impact, the 1982 eruption of the El Chichón volcano in Mexico is one of the most significant volcanic events of this century. The presence in the stratosphere, during several years, of an unusally high amount of sulfuric acid aerosols produced by this eruption is thought to be responsible for severe windshield damages on high-flying commercial jets. This problem took epidemic proportions in 1983–1984 and the cost to commercial aviation companies is estimated at several tens of millions of U.S. dollars.