Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World (51 page)

stratosphere,
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sugar,
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Sulawesi (Celebes),
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sulfate aerosols,
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48
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79
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31
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sulfur,
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sulfuric acid,
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Sumbawa,
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; agriculture and,
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; ash and,
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25
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30
; Bali and,
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; climate change and,
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; deforestation of,
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; dry season of,
13
; Dutch and,
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24

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62
; economic devastation of,
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25
; famine and,
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30
; Flores and,
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23
; horse breeders of,
14
; Java Trench and,
8
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Koteh and,
13
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; Lombok and,
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; pirates and,
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; poetry and,
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; poverty and,
25
; rice and,
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; Sanggar Peninsula and,
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; settlement of,
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; Sulawesi (Celebes) and,
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; Sumba and,
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; Tambora’s death toll on,
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; tsunamis and,
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; vassal system of,
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;
zaman hujan au
(time of the ash rain) and,
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summer of 1816: as “Year of the Beggar,”
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; “Eighteen-Hundred-and-Froze-to-Death” and,
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; “Frankenstein weather” and,
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; June
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storm and,
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; as “Year without a Summer,”
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Sunda arc,
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sunsets,
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sunspots,
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superstition,
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Surrey Gardens,
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Swiss Society of Natural Sciences,
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Switzerland: agriculture and,
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; Alps and,
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(
see also
Alps
); avalanches and,
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; famine and,
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; floods in,
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; Shelleys and,
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; storms and,
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; Swiss Society of Natural Sciences and,
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; Tambora’s effect on,
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; Villa Diodati and,
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syphilis,
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Tambora: Alpine effects of,
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; American effects of,
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; Arctic effects of,
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; ash and,
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(
see also
ash
); background climate for,
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; caldera of,
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; as cautionary tale,
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; climate change and,
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(
see also
climate change
); Crawfurd on,
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; England effects of,
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; evacuations and,
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; first rumblings of,
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; first victim of,
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; flora/fauna effects of,
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; “Frankenstein weather” resulting from,
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; German effects of,
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; hydrologic cycle disrupted by,
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; immediate deaths from,
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; implosion of,
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; Indian effects of,
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; Irish effects of,
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; Koteh and,
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; monsoon effects of,
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; panic of 1819 and,
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; pumice hail of,
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; Sanggar Peninsula and,
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; scale of eruption of,
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; sound of,
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; storms and,
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(
see also
storms
); stratospheric effects and,
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; sulfate aerosols and,
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; Sumbawan deaths from,
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19

20
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; Sunda arc and,
8
; superstition and,
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; Swiss effects of,
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; Teluk Saleh and,
7
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Teluk Saleh,
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temperature,
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; average,
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; Buffon on,
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; cholera and,
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; cycles of,
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; febrile body,
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; glaciers and,
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; gradient of,
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; higher,
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; Holocene Period and,
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241n12
; Howard’s observations and,
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; jet streams and,
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; Land Office records and,
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; latitude and,
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; lower,
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; ocean,
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; raw,
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; regional,
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; rice crops and,
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; sulfate aerosols and,
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; wind and,
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(
see also
wind
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Tenerife,
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Tennyson,
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Thailand,
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Theatre de la République,
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thunderstorms,
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Times
newspaper,
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“To Autumn” (Keats),
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trade winds,
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transatlantic trade,
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237n5

Treaty of Paris,
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tree-ring studies,
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248n19

Trevelyan, Charles,
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tropics,
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; air pressure differentials and,
49
; Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and,
137

38
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249n25
; disease and,
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; eruption of 1258 and,
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; eruption of 1809 and,
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241n12
; forests of,
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; heat transfer and,
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38
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249n25
; Little Ice Age and,
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; monsoons and,
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; rain in,
5
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; raw
surface temperature and,
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; rice and,
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; summer snows and,
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; Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) and,
43
; volcanoes located in,
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43

44
(
see also
volcanoes
); wind–based heat transport and,
49

tropopause,
50

Trotter, John,
185

tsunamis: Alpine ice floods compared to,
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70
; Sumbawa and,
18

19
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22

tuberculosis,
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Turner, J. M. W. (William),
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3
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typhus,
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; Burundi and,
183
; Carleton’s writings and,
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; clergy and,
190
; doctors and,
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,
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; etiology for,
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; famine and,
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70
; Gamble and,
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; Harty and,
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; Ireland and,
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; lice and,
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,
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,
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87
; Napoleon’s army and,
183
; newspaper media and,
190
; pathogen source of,
183
; rural population and,
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89
; treatises on,
187
,
253n43

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