Response to Comment on "No consistent ENSO response to volcanic forcing over the last millennium"

Sylvia G Dee; Kim M Cobb; Julien Emile-Geay; Toby R Ault; R Lawrence Edwards; Hai Cheng; Christopher D Charles

doi:10.1126/science.abc1733

Response to Comment on "No consistent ENSO response to volcanic forcing over the last millennium"

Science. 2020 Sep 11;369(6509):eabc1733. doi: 10.1126/science.abc1733.

Authors

Sylvia G Dee¹, Kim M Cobb², Julien Emile-Geay³, Toby R Ault⁴, R Lawrence Edwards⁵, Hai Cheng^{5

6}, Christopher D Charles⁷

Affiliations

¹ Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA. sylvia.dee@rice.edu.
² School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.
³ Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
⁴ Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
⁵ Minnesota Isotope Laboratory, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
⁶ Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710054, China.
⁷ Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, CA, USA.

PMID: 32913071
DOI: 10.1126/science.abc1733

Abstract

Robock claims that our analysis fails to acknowledge that pan-tropical surface cooling caused by large volcanic eruptions may mask El Niño warming at our central Pacific site, potentially obscuring a volcano-El Niño connection suggested in previous studies. Although observational support for a dynamical response linking volcanic cooling to El Niño remains ambiguous, Robock raises some important questions about our study that we address here.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
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