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Sylvia G Dee1, Kim M Cobb2, Julien Emile-Geay3
1Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA. sylvia.dee@rice.edu.
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.
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