Comment on "No consistent ENSO response to volcanic forcing over the last millennium"
Thursday, September 10, 2020 - 13:31
in Earth & Climate
Dee et al. (Reports, 27 March 2020, p. 1477) claimed that large volcanic eruptions do not produce a detectable El Niño response. However, they come to the wrong conclusion because they have ignored the fundamental climate response to large volcanic eruptions: Volcanic eruptions cool the surface, thus masking the relative El Niño warming.