Siege of the South: Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai Water Vapor Excluded from 2022 Antarctic Stratospheric Polar Vortex

• Main Authors: Manney, Gloria L, Santee, Michelle L., Lambert, Alyn, Millan, Luis, Minschwaner, Ken, Werner, Frank, Lawrence, Zachary Duane, Read, William G., Livesey, Nathaniel J, Wang, Tao
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Authorea, Inc. 2023
• Subjects: Antarctic; Tonga; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.22541/essoar.168057560.00140372/v1

We use Aura Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) trace gas measurements to investigate whether water vapor (H2O) injected into the stratosphere by the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai (HTHH) eruption affected the 2022 Antarctic stratospheric vortex. Other MLS-measured long-lived species are used to distinguish hig...