Pinatubo

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• In June 1991, Mount Pinatubo erupted violently, causing widespread destruction across the region.

• Reporter Eli Kintisch points out that the Mt. Pinatubo eruption ate away at the ozone layer (bad) but also encouraged plant growth because sunlight became more diffuse (good).

  Academic text (2010)

• This is the cooling here after the Pinatubo eruption.

• Pinatubo in the 90s caused a two or three year dip in global temperatures.

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• In the six to 18 months following the eruption of Mount Pinatubo, rainfall and river flows dropped, particularly in the tropics.

  Academic text (2009)

• We know, for instance, that the 1991-93 temperature dip coincided with a powerful forcing: the Mount Pinatubo eruption.

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• The effects of sulfur-bearing aerosols and clouds produced by Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, for example, have recently been extensively studied (see cover photo).

  Academic text (1995)

• In 1991, after the volcanic eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, k remained no lower than 0.45 at sea level for months over much of the northern hemisphere.

  Academic text (2004)

• Soviet scientist Mikhail Budyko proposed this idea some 40 years ago, and the 1991 eruption of Mr. Pinatubo in the Philippines confirmed its potential by cooling the planet by a half degree Celsius in just a few months.

  Academic text (2010)

• After centuries of dormancy, Mount Pinatubo surprised scientists with its major eruption in 1991.

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Mount Pinatubo

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A volcano on Luzon island in the Philippines that erupted strongly in 1991 after many years of quiet

means the same but appears without the mountain prefix

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