Northern Hemisphere continental winter warming following the 1991 Mt. Pinatubo eruption: reconciling models and observations

Polvani, Lorenzo M.; Banerjee, Antara; Schmidt, Anja

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-6351-2019

Articles | Volume 19, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-6351-2019

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-6351-2019

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Articles | Volume 19, issue 9

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15 May 2019

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Northern Hemisphere continental winter warming following the 1991 Mt. Pinatubo eruption: reconciling models and observations

Lorenzo M. Polvani, Antara Banerjee, and Anja Schmidt

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RC1: 'Review of 'Northern Hemisphere continental winter warming following the 1991 Mt. Pinatubo eruption: Reconciling models and observations', Anonymous Reviewer #1, 11 Jun 2018', Anonymous Referee #2, 11 Jun 2018
RC2: 'Review of the manuscript by L.Polvani, A. Benerjee, and A. Schmidt, Northern Hemisphere continental warming following the 1991 Mt. Pinatubo eruption: Reconciling models and observations', Anonymous Referee #3, 20 Jun 2018
AC1: 'authors' reply to the referees', Lorenzo Polvani, 17 Dec 2018

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AR by Anna Wenzel on behalf of the Authors (18 Dec 2018) Author's response

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (11 Jan 2019) by Rolf Müller

RR by Georgiy Stenchikov (22 Jan 2019)

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RR by Anonymous Referee #4 (01 Feb 2019)

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (06 Mar 2019) by Rolf Müller

AR by Anna Mirena Feist-Polner on behalf of the Authors (03 Apr 2019) Author's response

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (17 Apr 2019) by Rolf Müller

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This study provides compelling new evidence that the surface winter warming observed over the Northern Hemisphere continents following the 1991 eruption of Mt. Pinatubo was, very likely, completely unrelated to the eruption. This result has implications for earlier eruptions, as the evidence presented here demonstrates that the surface signal of even the very largest known eruptions may be swamped by the internal variability at high latitudes.