The unprecedented 2017–2018 stratospheric smoke event: decay phase and aerosol properties observed with the EARLINET
. Six months of stratospheric aerosol observations with the European Aerosol Research Lidar Network (EARLINET) from August 2017 to January 2018 are presented. The decay phase of an unprecedented, record-breaking stratospheric perturbation caused by wildfire smoke is reported and discussed in terms o...
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ftzenodo:oai:zenodo.org:4299015 2024-09-15T18:25:55+00:00 The unprecedented 2017–2018 stratospheric smoke event: decay phase and aerosol properties observed with the EARLINET Holger Baars Albert Ansmann Kevin Ohneiser Moritz Haarig Ronny Engelmann Dietrich Althausen Ingrid Hanssen Michael Gausa Aleksander Pietruczuk Artur Szkop Iwona S. Stachlewska Dongxiang Wang Jens Reichardt Annett Skupin Ina Mattis Thomas Trickl Hannes Vogelmann Francisco Navas-Guzmán Alexander Haefele Karen Acheson Albert A. Ruth Boyan Tatarov Detlef Müller Qiaoyun Hu Thierry Podvin Philippe Goloub Igor Veselovskii Christophe Pietras Martial Haeffelin Patrick Fréville Michaël Sicard Adolfo Comerón Alfonso Javier Fernández García Francisco Molero Menéndez Carmen Córdoba-Jabonero Juan Luis Guerrero-Rascado Lucas Alados-Arboledas Daniele Bortoli Maria João Costa Davide Dionisi Gian Luigi Liberti Xuan Wang Alessia Sannino Nikolaos Papagiannopoulos Antonella Boselli Lucia Mona Giuseppe D'Amico Salvatore Romano Maria Rita Perrone Livio Belegante Doina Nicolae Ivan Grigorov Anna Gialitaki Vassilis Amiridis Ourania Soupiona Alexandros Papayannis Rodanthi-Elisaveth Mamouri Argyro Nisantzi Birgit Heese Julian Hofer Yoav Y. Schechner Ulla Wandinger Gelsomina Pappalardo 2019-11-15 https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-15183-2019 eng eng Zenodo https://zenodo.org/communities/noa-react https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-15183-2019 oai:zenodo.org:4299015 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 19(23), 15183-15198, (2019-11-15) aerosol property atmospheric plume black carbon Northern Hemisphere smoke soot stratosphere troposphere info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2019 ftzenodo https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-15183-2019 2024-07-26T05:33:36Z . Six months of stratospheric aerosol observations with the European Aerosol Research Lidar Network (EARLINET) from August 2017 to January 2018 are presented. The decay phase of an unprecedented, record-breaking stratospheric perturbation caused by wildfire smoke is reported and discussed in terms of geometrical, optical, and microphysical aerosol properties. Enormous amounts of smoke were injected into the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere over fire areas in western Canada on 12 August 2017 during strong thunderstorm–pyrocumulonimbus activity. The stratospheric fire plumes spread over the entire Northern Hemisphere in the following weeks and months. Twenty-eight European lidar stations from northern Norway to southern Portugal and the eastern Mediterranean monitored the strong stratospheric perturbation on a continental scale. The main smoke layer (over central, western, southern, and eastern Europe) was found at heights between 15 and 20 km since September 2017 (about 2 weeks after entering the stratosphere). Thin layers of smoke were detected at heights of up to 22–23 km. The stratospheric aerosol optical thickness at 532 nm decreased from values > 0.25 on 21–23 August 2017 to 0.005–0.03 until 5–10 September and was mainly 0.003–0.004 from October to December 2017 and thus was still significantly above the stratospheric background (0.001–0.002). Stratospheric particle extinction coefficients (532 nm) were as high as 50–200 Mm−1 until the beginning of September and on the order of 1 Mm−1 (0.5– 5 Mm−1 ) from October 2017 until the end of January 2018. The corresponding layer mean particle mass concentration was on the order of 0.05–0.5 µg m−3 over these months. Soot particles (light-absorbing carbonaceous particles) are efficient ice-nucleating particles (INPs) at upper tropospheric (cirrus) temperatures and available to influence cirrus formation when entering the tropopause from above. We estimated INP concentrations of 50–500 L−1 until the first days in September and afterwards 5–50 L−1 until the ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Norway Zenodo Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 19 23 15183 15198 |
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aerosol property atmospheric plume black carbon Northern Hemisphere smoke soot stratosphere troposphere Holger Baars Albert Ansmann Kevin Ohneiser Moritz Haarig Ronny Engelmann Dietrich Althausen Ingrid Hanssen Michael Gausa Aleksander Pietruczuk Artur Szkop Iwona S. Stachlewska Dongxiang Wang Jens Reichardt Annett Skupin Ina Mattis Thomas Trickl Hannes Vogelmann Francisco Navas-Guzmán Alexander Haefele Karen Acheson Albert A. Ruth Boyan Tatarov Detlef Müller Qiaoyun Hu Thierry Podvin Philippe Goloub Igor Veselovskii Christophe Pietras Martial Haeffelin Patrick Fréville Michaël Sicard Adolfo Comerón Alfonso Javier Fernández García Francisco Molero Menéndez Carmen Córdoba-Jabonero Juan Luis Guerrero-Rascado Lucas Alados-Arboledas Daniele Bortoli Maria João Costa Davide Dionisi Gian Luigi Liberti Xuan Wang Alessia Sannino Nikolaos Papagiannopoulos Antonella Boselli Lucia Mona Giuseppe D'Amico Salvatore Romano Maria Rita Perrone Livio Belegante Doina Nicolae Ivan Grigorov Anna Gialitaki Vassilis Amiridis Ourania Soupiona Alexandros Papayannis Rodanthi-Elisaveth Mamouri Argyro Nisantzi Birgit Heese Julian Hofer Yoav Y. Schechner Ulla Wandinger Gelsomina Pappalardo The unprecedented 2017–2018 stratospheric smoke event: decay phase and aerosol properties observed with the EARLINET |
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. Six months of stratospheric aerosol observations with the European Aerosol Research Lidar Network (EARLINET) from August 2017 to January 2018 are presented. The decay phase of an unprecedented, record-breaking stratospheric perturbation caused by wildfire smoke is reported and discussed in terms of geometrical, optical, and microphysical aerosol properties. Enormous amounts of smoke were injected into the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere over fire areas in western Canada on 12 August 2017 during strong thunderstorm–pyrocumulonimbus activity. The stratospheric fire plumes spread over the entire Northern Hemisphere in the following weeks and months. Twenty-eight European lidar stations from northern Norway to southern Portugal and the eastern Mediterranean monitored the strong stratospheric perturbation on a continental scale. The main smoke layer (over central, western, southern, and eastern Europe) was found at heights between 15 and 20 km since September 2017 (about 2 weeks after entering the stratosphere). Thin layers of smoke were detected at heights of up to 22–23 km. The stratospheric aerosol optical thickness at 532 nm decreased from values > 0.25 on 21–23 August 2017 to 0.005–0.03 until 5–10 September and was mainly 0.003–0.004 from October to December 2017 and thus was still significantly above the stratospheric background (0.001–0.002). Stratospheric particle extinction coefficients (532 nm) were as high as 50–200 Mm−1 until the beginning of September and on the order of 1 Mm−1 (0.5– 5 Mm−1 ) from October 2017 until the end of January 2018. The corresponding layer mean particle mass concentration was on the order of 0.05–0.5 µg m−3 over these months. Soot particles (light-absorbing carbonaceous particles) are efficient ice-nucleating particles (INPs) at upper tropospheric (cirrus) temperatures and available to influence cirrus formation when entering the tropopause from above. We estimated INP concentrations of 50–500 L−1 until the first days in September and afterwards 5–50 L−1 until the ... |
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Holger Baars Albert Ansmann Kevin Ohneiser Moritz Haarig Ronny Engelmann Dietrich Althausen Ingrid Hanssen Michael Gausa Aleksander Pietruczuk Artur Szkop Iwona S. Stachlewska Dongxiang Wang Jens Reichardt Annett Skupin Ina Mattis Thomas Trickl Hannes Vogelmann Francisco Navas-Guzmán Alexander Haefele Karen Acheson Albert A. Ruth Boyan Tatarov Detlef Müller Qiaoyun Hu Thierry Podvin Philippe Goloub Igor Veselovskii Christophe Pietras Martial Haeffelin Patrick Fréville Michaël Sicard Adolfo Comerón Alfonso Javier Fernández García Francisco Molero Menéndez Carmen Córdoba-Jabonero Juan Luis Guerrero-Rascado Lucas Alados-Arboledas Daniele Bortoli Maria João Costa Davide Dionisi Gian Luigi Liberti Xuan Wang Alessia Sannino Nikolaos Papagiannopoulos Antonella Boselli Lucia Mona Giuseppe D'Amico Salvatore Romano Maria Rita Perrone Livio Belegante Doina Nicolae Ivan Grigorov Anna Gialitaki Vassilis Amiridis Ourania Soupiona Alexandros Papayannis Rodanthi-Elisaveth Mamouri Argyro Nisantzi Birgit Heese Julian Hofer Yoav Y. Schechner Ulla Wandinger Gelsomina Pappalardo |
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Holger Baars Albert Ansmann Kevin Ohneiser Moritz Haarig Ronny Engelmann Dietrich Althausen Ingrid Hanssen Michael Gausa Aleksander Pietruczuk Artur Szkop Iwona S. Stachlewska Dongxiang Wang Jens Reichardt Annett Skupin Ina Mattis Thomas Trickl Hannes Vogelmann Francisco Navas-Guzmán Alexander Haefele Karen Acheson Albert A. Ruth Boyan Tatarov Detlef Müller Qiaoyun Hu Thierry Podvin Philippe Goloub Igor Veselovskii Christophe Pietras Martial Haeffelin Patrick Fréville Michaël Sicard Adolfo Comerón Alfonso Javier Fernández García Francisco Molero Menéndez Carmen Córdoba-Jabonero Juan Luis Guerrero-Rascado Lucas Alados-Arboledas Daniele Bortoli Maria João Costa Davide Dionisi Gian Luigi Liberti Xuan Wang Alessia Sannino Nikolaos Papagiannopoulos Antonella Boselli Lucia Mona Giuseppe D'Amico Salvatore Romano Maria Rita Perrone Livio Belegante Doina Nicolae Ivan Grigorov Anna Gialitaki Vassilis Amiridis Ourania Soupiona Alexandros Papayannis Rodanthi-Elisaveth Mamouri Argyro Nisantzi Birgit Heese Julian Hofer Yoav Y. Schechner Ulla Wandinger Gelsomina Pappalardo |
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The unprecedented 2017–2018 stratospheric smoke event: decay phase and aerosol properties observed with the EARLINET |
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The unprecedented 2017–2018 stratospheric smoke event: decay phase and aerosol properties observed with the EARLINET |
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The unprecedented 2017–2018 stratospheric smoke event: decay phase and aerosol properties observed with the EARLINET |
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The unprecedented 2017–2018 stratospheric smoke event: decay phase and aerosol properties observed with the EARLINET |
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The unprecedented 2017–2018 stratospheric smoke event: decay phase and aerosol properties observed with the EARLINET |
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