The violent eruption of an underwater volcano near Tonga in January blasted a record amount of water vapor into the atmosphere, but not all scientists agree about the exact amount.
Tonga was hit by an underwater eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano and subsequent tsunami on Jan. 15, which wiped out an entire village on one of Tonga’s small outer islands and killed at least three people.
Holger Vomel, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, was the lead author of a study on the Tonga volcanic eruption published on Sept. 22 in the academic journal Science….