A lot of the practically 150 million tonnes of water vapour launched into the air by the underwater eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano in 2022 stays there, setting file concentrations in lots of components of the ambiance.
“It’s actually a really particular, unprecedented occasion,” says Christian von Savigny on the College of Greifswald in Germany.
The South Pacific eruption was the primary such occasion to happen when…