Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA.
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Science. 2020 Sep 11;369(6509). doi: 10.1126/science.abc1733.
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.
罗博克声称，我们的分析未能承认，大规模火山爆发导致的泛热带地表冷却可能掩盖了中太平洋地区厄尔尼诺现象的变暖，从而可能使之前研究中提出的火山-厄尔尼诺关联变得模糊。虽然观测结果仍不确定是否存在将火山冷却与厄尔尼诺现象联系起来的动力响应，但罗博克对我们的研究提出了一些重要问题，我们在此进行解答。
