When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time | |
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They are usually caused by thunderstorms — or strong pressure gradients associated with cyclones — which increase wind speed over a wide area | Integrated Global Greenhouse Gas Information System IG3IS WMO and its partners in the Global Atmosphere Watch GAW are developing a new approach to tracking greenhouse gas emissions in support of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change UNFCCC and its Paris Agreement |
"Climatic, environmental and human consequences of the largest known historic eruption: Tambora volcano Indonesia 1815".
Jelle Zeilinga de Boer, Donald Theodore Sanders 2002 | The animations can be viewed below and on the |
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WMO has produced three animations to explain how this works | ; Kessler, Richard; Gerlach, Terrence M |
Living With Volcanoes USGS 18• These strong winds lift large amounts of sand and dust from bare, dry soils into the atmosphere, transporting them hundreds to thousands of kilometres away.
16Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | |
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