The following questionnaire was completed by the Resident of Surakarta in eastern Java describing local eyewitness accounts of the effects of the Tambora eruption (catalogued by Blagden [1916]). It gives a vivid picture of the effects of the massive eruption some 800 km from the volcano. (The...
Unlike the sudden drop in temperatures in Indonesia that occurred immediately after the eruption of Mount Tambora, the planetwide cooling was a gradual process that took up to a year to be fully realized. While air temperatures can, and frequently do, change rapidly in response to variations in...
Unlike the sudden drop in temperatures in Indonesia that occurred immediately after the eruption of Mount Tambora, the planetwide cooling was a gradual process that took up to a year to be fully realized. While air temperatures can, and frequently do, change rapidly in response to variations in...
Australia’s record-breaking 2019/20 Black Summer fire weather resulted from a combination of natural and anthropogenic climate factors, but the full range of natural variability in fire weather is unknown. We reconstruct southeast Australian fire weathe
The volcano looms over the Java Sea from the northern shore of the island of Sumbawa, which lies towards the eastern end of the former Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. Every now and again Mount Tambora erupts. Its 1815 explosion was possibly the most destructive ever recorded. ...
summer seasons were characterized by fluctuations between normal and extremely hot or cold conditions1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, including, for example, the “year without a summer 1816 CE” that was clearly related to the eruption of Mount Tambora in April 1815. Yet, the reason behind this ...
The fine resolution illustrates steep climate gradients across short distances due to the orographic effects of Mount Rinjani and Mount Tambora. For example, rainfall in DJF in north Lombok in 2060 may change by −5% to −20%, whereas in central Lombok it may change by −5% to +10%....
The eruption of Mount Tambora killed thousands, plunged much of the world into a frightful chill and offers lessons for today
Mount Tambora changed the world. In 1815, the Indonesian volcano exploded in the most powerful eruption in recorded history, sending an enormous plumeof tiny sun-reflecting particleshigh into the atmosphere, cooling the planet and ushering in disaster. What followed was called the “year without a...
"In the part of Saugar adjoining [Mount Tambora] its effects were much more violent, tearing up by the roots the largest trees and carrying them into the air together with men, houses, cattle, and whatever else came within its influence. This will account for the immense number of floating...