Australian Black Summer smoke observed by lidar at the French Antarctic station Dumont d’Urville

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
• Main Authors: Tencé, Florent, Jumelet, Julien, Bekki, Slimane, Khaykin, Sergey, Sarkissian, Alain, 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)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2022
• Subjects: [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-AO-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics [physics.ao-ph]; Antarctic; Dumont d’Urville; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-03548361; https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-03548361/document; https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-03548361/file/JGR%20Atmospheres%20-%202022%20-%20Tenc%20-%20Australian%20Black%20Summer%20Smoke%20Observed%20by%20Lidar%20at%20the%20French%20Antarctic%20Station%20Dumont%20d.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD035349

International audience In the follow-up of the Australian ”Black Summer” event that persisted from August 2019 to March 2020, we present the optical properties of the stratospheric aerosols injected into the atmosphere by these wildfires. The outbreak of pyrocumulonimbus (PyroCb) activity triggered...