Disentangling the causes of the 1816 European year without a summer by Andrew P Schurer, Gabriele C Hegerl, Jürg Luterbacher, Stefan Brönnimann, Tim Cowan, Simon F B Tett, Davide Zanchettin, Claudia Timmreck

“…The European summer of 1816 has often been referred to as a ‘year without a summer’ due to anomalously cold conditions and unusual wetness, which led to widespread famines and agricultural failures. …”
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Simulating crop yield losses in Switzerland for historical and present Tambora climate scenarios by Simon Flückiger, Stefan Brönnimann, Annelie Holzkämper, Jürg Fuhrer, Daniel Krämer, Christian Pfister, Christian Rohr

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The amplifying influence of increased ocean stratification on a future year without a summer by J. T. Fasullo, R. Tomas, S. Stevenson, B. Otto-Bliesner, E. Brady, E. Wahl

“…Tambora caused one of the strongest climate perturbations in the modern record; the 1816 year without a summer. Here, the authors show that climate change, through its impact on ocean stratification, strengthens the surface response to such an eruption.…”
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Perceiving, explaining, and observing climatic changes: An historical case study of the "year without a summer" 1816 by Tom Bodenmann, Stefan Brönnimann, Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn, Tobias Krüger, Helmut Weissert

“…The role of the "year without a summer" (YWAS) in 1816 in shaping the scientific discourse on climatic changes has been investigated in an interdisciplinary project by studying reactions of different knowledge systems to the YWAS as an initially unexplainable event. …”
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A collection of sub-daily pressure and temperature observations for the early instrumental period with a focus on the "year without a summer" 1816 by Y. Brugnara, R. Auchmann, S. Brönnimann, R. J. Allan, I. Auer, M. Barriendos, H. Bergström, J. Bhend, R. Brázdil, G. P. Compo, R. C. Cornes, F. Dominguez-Castro, A. F. V. van Engelen, J. Filipiak, J. Holopainen, S. Jourdain, M. Kunz, J. Luterbacher, M. Maugeri, L. Mercalli, A. Moberg, C. J. Mock, G. Pichard, L. Řezníčková, G. van der Schrier, V. Slonosky, Z. Ustrnul, M. A. Valente, A. Wypych, X. Yin

“…It is associated with a large global cooling during the following year, felt particularly in parts of Europe and North America, where the year 1816 became known as the "year without a summer". This paper describes an effort made to collect surface meteorological observations from the early instrumental period, with a focus on the years of and immediately following the eruption (1815–1817). …”
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Underground climate: infrastructure, Hollow Earth, and the Anthropocene by Lund, SE

“…In an era of atmospheric volatility (the 1816 Year Without a Summer, the 1858 Great Stink, the 1884 eruption of Krakatos) it was increasingly imagined as an insular space where humanity could protect itself from the variabilities of a climate becoming chaotic. …”

Climatic effects and impacts of the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in the Czech Lands by R. Brázdil, L. Řezníčková, H. Valášek, L. Dolák, O. Kotyza

“…Czech documentary sources make no direct mention of the Tambora eruption, neither do they relate any particular weather phenomena to it, but they record an extremely wet summer for 1815 and an extremely cold summer for 1816 (the "Year Without a Summer") that contributed to bad grain harvests and widespread grain price increases in 1817. …”
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Explorations in the design of a multisensor system for seismic and geodetic monitoring of volcanoes by Akshat Dave

“…Tambora, Indonesia in 1815 affected global climate, agriculture and eventually world economy. The “Year without a summer” reminds us how such events can instantaneously claim over 71, 000 people’s lives and change the face of the earth. …”
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Multi-model comparison of the volcanic sulfate deposition from the 1815 eruption of Mt. Tambora by L. Marshall, A. Schmidt, A. Schmidt, M. Toohey, M. Toohey, K. S. Carslaw, G. W. Mann, G. W. Mann, M. Sigl, M. Khodri, C. Timmreck, D. Zanchettin, W. T. Ball, W. T. Ball, S. Bekki, J. S. A. Brooke, S. Dhomse, C. Johnson, J.-F. Lamarque, A. N. LeGrande, A. N. LeGrande, M. J. Mills, U. Niemeier, J. O. Pope, V. Poulain, A. Robock, E. Rozanov, E. Rozanov, A. Stenke, T. Sukhodolov, S. Tilmes, K. Tsigaridis, K. Tsigaridis, F. Tummon, F. Tummon

“…The eruption had significant climatic impacts, leading to the 1816 <q>year without a summer</q>, and remains a valuable event from which to understand the climatic effects of large stratospheric volcanic sulfur dioxide injections. …”
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