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Tree Rings for Measuring Climate Response to Volcanic Eruptions
February 8, 2012 | National Science Foundation

“Some climate cooling caused by past volcanic eruptions may not be evident in tree-ring reconstructions of temperature change because large enough temperature drops lead to greatly shortened or even absent growing seasons, according to climate researchers, who compared tree-ring temperature reconstructions with model simulations of past temperature changes.”


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