Tonga's volcano sent tons of water into the stratosphere. That could warm the Earth

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Tongaの火山噴火の記事からです。凄まじい水蒸気噴火となって、成層圏付近まで噴き上げた火山の影響で、地球大気に与える影響を報じています。

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The violent eruption of Tonga's Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano injected an unprecedented amount of water directly into the stratosphere — and the vapor will stay there for years, likely affecting the Earth's climate patterns, NASA scientists say.

The massive amount of water vapor is roughly 10% of the normal amount of vapor found in the stratosphere, equaling more than 58,000 Olympic-size swimming pools.

"We've never seen anything like it," said atmospheric scientist Luis Millán, who works at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Millán led a study of the water the volcano sent into the sky; the team's research was published in Geophysical Research Letters.