Comment on "No consistent ENSO response to volcanic forcing over the last millennium".

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Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA.

Published: September 2020


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Dee (Reports, 27 March 2020, p. 1477) claimed that large volcanic eruptions do not produce a detectable El Niño response. However, they come to the wrong conclusion because they have ignored the fundamental climate response to large volcanic eruptions: Volcanic eruptions cool the surface, thus masking the relative El Niño warming.

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