Editor's highlight of Vikings article about the Eldgjá eruption

The article "Revisiting the 10th-century Eldgjá eruption: Modeling the climatic and environmental impacts", by Fuglestvedt, H. F. et al is hightlighted by the EOS editor. The article is published in the AGU  scientific journal Geophysical Research Letters.

Figure. Summertime land surface air temperature anomalies in (a) 939 and (b) 940 CE.

Figure: Summertime land surface air temperature anomalies in (a) 939 and (b) 940 CE. Credit: Fuglestvedt et al. [2025], Figure 3

The open source research article “Revisiting the 10th-Century Eldgjá Eruption: Modeling the Climatic and Environmental Impacts”, is recently selected for featuring as an Editor’s Highlight. The researchers of the article are Herman F. Fuglestvedt, Imogen Gabriel, Michael Sigl, Thorvaldur Thordarson, Kirstin Krüger.

The research is done in the Vikings reseach project at the University of Oslo. The highlighting was published on Eos.org in May 2025. Fewer than 2% of all AGU papers are selected to be featured in this way on the webpages for EOS. Editors’ Highlights are summaries of recent papers by AGU’s journal editors.

 

Read the Editor's highlight:

Revised Emissions Show Higher Cooling in 10th Century Eruption, EOS, 16 May 2025

Reference for the research article:

Fuglestvedt, H. F., Gabriel, I., Sigl, M., Thordarson, T., & Krüger, K. (2025). Revisiting the 10th-century Eldgjá eruption: Modeling the climatic and environmental impacts. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2024GL110507. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL110507

Published May 19, 2025 11:51 AM - Last modified May 19, 2025 11:55 AM