article_snippet: However, Dr Black and Dr Black colleagues, whose work is published in the journal Geology, used computer modelling to simulate the impact this enormous eruption would have had on the area at the time.
article_snippet: More than 150 cubic kilometers of magma was thrown out by this enormous eruption.
article_snippet: The sulphur dioxide would have acted like an aerosol, blanketing the area with a layer in the atmosphere that reflected sunlight back into space.
article_snippet: Researchers from Oxford and Plymouth universities estimate that temperatures in western Europe fell by an average of two to four degrees C in the year following the eruption.
highlights_snippet: Scientists at University of California Berkeley modeled the eruption impact .
  
highlights_snippet: Scientists at University of California Berkeley  found Huge volcanic eruption cooled Europe's climate by 2-4 degrees C .
  