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Tonga eruption increases chance of temporary surface temperature anomaly above 1.5 °C

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  • Stuart Jenkins

    (University of Oxford)

  • Chris Smith

    (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
    University of Leeds)

  • Myles Allen

    (University of Oxford
    University of Oxford)

  • Roy Grainger

    (University of Oxford)

Abstract

On 15 January 2022, the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai (HTHH) eruption injected 146 MtH2O and 0.42 MtSO2 into the stratosphere. This large water vapour perturbation means that HTHH will probably increase the net radiative forcing, unusual for a large volcanic eruption, increasing the chance of the global surface temperature anomaly temporarily exceeding 1.5 °C over the coming decade. Here we estimate the radiative response to the HTHH eruption and derive the increased risk that the global mean surface temperature anomaly shortly exceeds 1.5 °C following the eruption. We show that HTHH has a tangible impact of the chance of imminent 1.5 °C exceedance (increasing the chance of at least one of the next 5 years exceeding 1.5 °C by 7%), but the level of climate policy ambition, particularly the mitigation of short-lived climate pollutants, dominates the 1.5 °C exceedance outlook over decadal timescales.

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  • Stuart Jenkins & Chris Smith & Myles Allen & Roy Grainger, 2023. "Tonga eruption increases chance of temporary surface temperature anomaly above 1.5 °C," Nature Climate Change, Nature, vol. 13(2), pages 127-129, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcli:v:13:y:2023:i:2:d:10.1038_s41558-022-01568-2
    DOI: 10.1038/s41558-022-01568-2
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