Volcanology: Chronicling a medieval eruption
Nature Geoscience 10, seventy eight (2017). doi:10.1038/ngeo2881
Author: Francis Ludlow
The climatic response to the eruption of the Samalas Volcano in 1257 has been elusive. Medieval archives inform of a spatially variable response, with Europe and Japan experiencing extreme chilly in comparison with relative heat in North America.