Articles | Volume 15, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-15-501-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-15-501-2024
Research article
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26 Apr 2024
Research article |  | 26 Apr 2024

Impact of volcanic eruptions on CMIP6 decadal predictions: a multi-model analysis

Roberto Bilbao, Pablo Ortega, Didier Swingedouw, Leon Hermanson, Panos Athanasiadis, Rosie Eade, Marion Devilliers, Francisco Doblas-Reyes, Nick Dunstone, An-Chi Ho, William Merryfield, Juliette Mignot, Dario Nicolì, Margarida Samsó, Reinel Sospedra-Alfonso, Xian Wu, and Stephen Yeager

Model code and software

startR: Automatically Retrieve Multidimensional Distributed Data Sets v2.3.1 N. Manubens et al. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/startR/index.html

s2dv: A Set of Common Tools for Seasonal to Decadal Verification v2.0.0 A.-C. Ho et al. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/s2dv/index.html

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In recent decades three major volcanic eruptions have occurred: Mount Agung in 1963, El Chichón in 1982 and Mount Pinatubo in 1991. In this article we explore the climatic impacts of these volcanic eruptions with a purposefully designed set of simulations from six CMIP6 decadal prediction systems. We analyse the radiative and dynamical responses and show that including the volcanic forcing in these predictions is important to reproduce the observed surface temperature variations.
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