2600-years of stratospheric volcanism through sulfate isotopes

E. Gautier (), J. Savarino (), J. Hoek, J. Erbland, N. Caillon, S. Hattori, N. Yoshida, E. Albalat, F. Albarede and J. Farquhar
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E. Gautier: Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement (IGE)
J. Savarino: Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement (IGE)
J. Hoek: University of Maryland
J. Erbland: Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement (IGE)
N. Caillon: Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement (IGE)
S. Hattori: Tokyo Institute of Technology
N. Yoshida: Tokyo Institute of Technology
E. Albalat: Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS and University of Lyon
F. Albarede: Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS and University of Lyon
J. Farquhar: University of Maryland

Nature Communications, 2019, vol. 10, issue 1, 1-7

Abstract: Abstract High quality records of stratospheric volcanic eruptions, required to model past climate variability, have been constructed by identifying synchronous (bipolar) volcanic sulfate horizons in Greenland and Antarctic ice cores. Here we present a new 2600-year chronology of stratospheric volcanic events using an independent approach that relies on isotopic signatures (Δ33S and in some cases Δ17O) of ice core sulfate from five closely-located ice cores from Dome C, Antarctica. The Dome C stratospheric reconstruction provides independent validation of prior reconstructions. The isotopic approach documents several high-latitude stratospheric events that are not bipolar, but climatically-relevant, and diverges deeper in the record revealing tropospheric signals for some previously assigned bipolar events. Our record also displays a collapse of the Δ17O anomaly of sulfate for the largest volcanic eruptions, showing a further change in atmospheric chemistry induced by large emissions. Thus, the refinement added by considering both isotopic and bipolar correlation methods provides additional levels of insight for climate-volcano connections and improves ice core volcanic reconstructions.

Date: 2019
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