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Impact of climate change on volcanic processes: current understanding and future challenges

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Peer-reviewed

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Authors

Aubry, TJ 
Farquharson, JI 
Rowell, CR 
Watt, SFL 
Pinel, V 

Abstract

jats:titleAbstract</jats:title>jats:pThe impacts of volcanic eruptions on climate are increasingly well understood, but the mirror question of how climate changes affect volcanic systems and processes, which we term “climate-volcano impacts”, remains understudied. Accelerating research on this topic is critical in view of rapid climate change driven by anthropogenic activities. Over the last two decades, we have improved our understanding of how mass distribution on the Earth’s surface, in particular changes in ice and water distribution linked to glacial cycles, affects mantle melting, crustal magmatic processing and eruption rates. New hypotheses on the impacts of climate change on eruption processes have also emerged, including how eruption style and volcanic plume rise are affected by changing surface and atmospheric conditions, and how volcanic sulfate aerosol lifecycle, radiative forcing and climate impacts are modulated by background climate conditions. Future improvements in past climate reconstructions and current climate observations, volcanic eruption records and volcano monitoring, and numerical models all have a role in advancing our understanding of climate-volcano impacts. Important mechanisms remain to be explored, such as how changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation will affect the volcanic ash life cycle. Fostering a holistic and interdisciplinary approach to climate-volcano impacts is critical to gain a full picture of how ongoing climate changes may affect the environmental and societal impacts of volcanic activity.</jats:p>

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Keywords

Volcanoes, Climate change, External forcing, Feedbacks

Journal Title

Bulletin of Volcanology

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Journal ISSN

0258-8900
1432-0819

Volume Title

84

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Sponsorship
Natural Environment Research Council (NE/S000887/1)
Natural Environment Research Council (NE/S00436X/1)
European Commission Horizon 2020 (H2020) Marie Sk?odowska-Curie actions (835939)