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Just wondering if we have any weather experts on the forum or those that recently slept at a Holiday Inn and was willing to comment on the severe storms being seen around the world with many nations experiencing record breaking flooding (today storms flooded Paris) and if the amount of water pushed into the stratosphere might have anything to do with it?
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The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai (HT-HH) volcano eruption in Tonga last January propelled a record-breaking amount of water vapor into the Earth’s stratosphere—enough to fill more than 58,000 Olympic-size swimming pools, according to research from NASA.
“We’ve never seen anything like it,” Luis Millán, an atmospheric scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, says in a statement. “We had to carefully inspect all the measurements in the plume to make sure they were trustworthy.”
In a paper published in Geophysical Research Letters, scientists analyzed data from the Microwave Limb Sounder, an instrument that measures gasses like water vapor and ozone from NASA’s Aura satellite, per the statement. They found that the undersea volcano’s plume reached altitudes up to about 35 miles, a “record in the satellite era.” The plume released 146 teragrams of water vapor into the stratosphere, which is equivalent to about 10 percent of the total water already in that layer of the atmosphere.
Tonga Volcanic Eruption Blasted an Enormous Plume of Water Vapor Into the Atmosphere
NASA scientists say the intrusion could warm the Earth's surface
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The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai (HT-HH) volcano eruption in Tonga last January propelled a record-breaking amount of water vapor into the Earth’s stratosphere—enough to fill more than 58,000 Olympic-size swimming pools, according to research from NASA.
“We’ve never seen anything like it,” Luis Millán, an atmospheric scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, says in a statement. “We had to carefully inspect all the measurements in the plume to make sure they were trustworthy.”
In a paper published in Geophysical Research Letters, scientists analyzed data from the Microwave Limb Sounder, an instrument that measures gasses like water vapor and ozone from NASA’s Aura satellite, per the statement. They found that the undersea volcano’s plume reached altitudes up to about 35 miles, a “record in the satellite era.” The plume released 146 teragrams of water vapor into the stratosphere, which is equivalent to about 10 percent of the total water already in that layer of the atmosphere.
