Decline in Etesian winds after large volcanic eruptions in the last millennium

Misios, Stergios; Logothetis, Ioannis; Knudsen, Mads F.; Karoff, Christoffer; Amiridis, Vassilis; Tourpali, Kleareti

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-3-811-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-3-811-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-3-811-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 3, issue 3

Research article

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29 Jul 2022

Research article |

| 29 Jul 2022

Decline in Etesian winds after large volcanic eruptions in the last millennium

Stergios Misios, Ioannis Logothetis, Mads F. Knudsen, Christoffer Karoff, Vassilis Amiridis, and Kleareti Tourpali

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-3-811-2022-supplement

Data sets

Climate Variability and Change since 850CE: An Ensemble Approach with the Community Earth System Model (https://www.earthsystemgrid.org/) B. L. Otto-Bliesner, E. C. Brady, J. Fasullo, A. Jahn, L. Landrum, S. Stevenson, N. Rosenbloom, A. Mai, and G. Strand https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00233.1

NOAA/CIRES/DOE 20th Century Reanalysis (V3) NOAA-CIRES-DOE https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.20thC_ReanV3.html

Short summary

We investigate the impact of strong volcanic eruptions on the northerly Etesian winds blowing in the eastern Mediterranean. Μodel simulations of the last millennium demonstrate a robust reduction in the total number of days with Etesian winds in the post-eruption summers. The decline in the Etesian winds is attributed to a weakened Indian summer monsoon in the post-eruption summer. These findings could improve seasonal predictions of the wind circulation in the eastern Mediterranean.