- "Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha‘apai produced relatively little sulfur dioxide but a fantastic amount of water vapor, and its warming effects, it’s believed, are still being felt."
If this puzzles anyone, the missing key is that this water vapor was injected into the stratosphere.
- "...estimate that the Tonga eruption sent around [146 million metric tons] of water vapor into Earth’s stratosphere – equal to 10% of the water already present in that atmospheric layer."
If this puzzles anyone, the missing key is that this water vapor was injected into the stratosphere.
https://www.nasa.gov/earth/tonga-eruption-blasted-unpreceden...
- "...estimate that the Tonga eruption sent around [146 million metric tons] of water vapor into Earth’s stratosphere – equal to 10% of the water already present in that atmospheric layer."