Detection of aerosols in Antarctica from long-range transport of the 2009 australian wildfires

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
• Main Authors: Jumelet, Julien, Klekociuk, A. R., S. P., Alexander, Bekki, Slimane, Hauchecorne, Alain, Vernier, Jean-Paul, Fromm, M., Keckhut, Philippe
• Other Authors: STRATO - LATMOS, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Australian Antarctic Division (AAD), Australian Government, Department of the Environment and Energy, NASA Langley Research Center Hampton (LaRC), Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2020
• Subjects: [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-AO-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics [physics.ao-ph]; Antarctic; Dumont d’Urville; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-02967511; https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-02967511/document; https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-02967511/file/Jumelet-et-al-Antarctic%20Plume%20Paper%20-%20Revised.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD032542

International audience We analyze the long‐range transport to high latitudes of a smoke particle filament originating from the extra‐tropics plume after the Australian wildfires colloquially known as ‘Black Saturday’ on February 7th 2009 and report the first Antarctic stratospheric lidar characteriz...