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Stratospheric aerosols from the Sarychev volcano eruption in the 2009 Arctic summer

Fabrice Jégou
Sophie Godin-Beekmann
Cathy Clerbaux

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Aerosols from the Sarychev volcano eruption (Kuril Islands, northeast of Japan) were observed in the Arctic lower stratosphere a few days after the strongest SO2 injection which occurred on 15 and 16 June 2009. From the observations provided by the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) an estimated 0.9 Tg of sulphur dioxide was injected into the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere (UTLS). The resultant stratospheric sulphate aerosols were detected by the Optical Spectrograph and Infrared Imaging System (OSIRIS) limb sounder and by the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) satellite instruments. By the first week of July the aerosol plume had spread out over the entire Arctic region. The Sarychev-induced stratospheric aerosol over the Kiruna region (north of Sweden) was measured by the Stratospheric and Tropospheric Aerosol Counter (STAC) during eight balloon flights planned in August and September 2009. During this balloon campaign the Micro RADIomètre BALlon (MicroRADIBAL) and the Spectroscopie d'Absorption Lunaire pour l'Observation des Minoritaires Ozone et NOx (SALOMON) remote-sensing instruments also observed these aerosols. Aerosol concentrations returned to near-background levels by spring 2010. The effective radius, the Surface Area Density (SAD), the aerosol extinction, and the total sulphur mass from STAC in situ measurements are enhanced with mean values in the range 0.15-0.21 μm, 5.5-14.7 μm2 cm−3, 5.5-29.5×10−4 km−1, and 4.9-12.6×10−10 kg [S] kg−1 [air], respectively, between 14 km and 18 km. The observed and modelled e-folding time of sulphate aerosols from the Sarychev eruption is around 70-80 days, a value much shorter than the 12-14 months calculated for aerosols from the 1991 eruption of Mt. Pinatubo. The OSIRIS stratospheric Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) at 750 nm is enhanced by a factor of 6 with a value of 0.02 in late July compared to 0.0035 before the eruption. The HadGEM2 and MIMOSA model outputs indicate that aerosol layers in polar region up to 14-15 km are largely modulated by stratosphere-troposphere exchange processes. The spatial extension of the Sarychev plume is well represented in the HadGEM2 model with lower altitudes of the plume being controlled by upper tropospheric troughs which displace the plume downward and upper altitudes around 18-20 km in agreement with lidar observations. A good consistency is found between the HadGEM2 sulphur mass density and the value inferred from the STAC observations with a maximum located about 1 km above the tropopause ranging from 1 to 2×10−9 kg [S] kg−1 [air], which is one order of magnitude higher than the background level.
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hal-00786622 , version 1 (24-09-2013)

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Fabrice Jégou, Gwenaël Berthet, C. Brogniez, Jean-Baptiste Renard, Philippe François, et al.. Stratospheric aerosols from the Sarychev volcano eruption in the 2009 Arctic summer. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2013, 13 (13), pp.6533-6552. ⟨10.5194/acp-13-6533-2013⟩. ⟨hal-00786622⟩
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