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Modulation of stratospheric aerosol composition by volcanic eruptions and wildfires from the 18-yr CALIPSO observation record

Oceane Soares
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Sergey Khaykin

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Stratospheric aerosol plays a large role in the chemical and radiative balance of the atmosphere. Explosive volcanic eruptions may directly inject SO2 and ash into the stratosphere, leading to significant perturbations of stratospheric aerosol burden at hemispheric and global scales, lasting from several months to several years. Another important emerging source of particulate matter in the stratosphere is wildfires, whose stratospheric impact is becoming increasingly important. Recent studies have demonstrated the self-lofting capacity of wildfire smoke aerosols, which prolongs their stratospheric residence time. Here we use the entire CALIPSO observation record to characterize the perturbations of stratospheric aerosol composition by various volcanic eruptions and wildfire-driven pyro- convection. We use CALIOP L1B data at 532 nm to compute the cloud-filtered weekly- zonal averages of scattering ratio and depolarization. The cloud filtering is done by applying a threshold of 10% on the raw volume depolarization. The resulting dataset is used to identify the perturbations of stratospheric aerosol load, to quantify their longevity, and to characterize the meridional and vertical evolution of volcanic and wildfire aerosols. The depolarization data allows for distinguishing between sulphates, ash and smoke aerosols. In this study, we focus on the most significant perturbations of stratospheric aerosol load during the CALIPSO era, namely the 2015 Calbuco, the 2019 Raikoke and the 2022 Hunga eruptions as well as the 2019/20 “Black Summer” Australian megafires. The analysis reveals contrasting behaviour of the volcanic and wildfire plumes in terms of their vertical evolution. We also find substantial differences in the aerosol composition of volcanic plumes from the various eruptions.
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insu-04599448 , version 1 (03-06-2024)

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Oceane Soares, Sergey Khaykin, Artem G. Feofilov. Modulation of stratospheric aerosol composition by volcanic eruptions and wildfires from the 18-yr CALIPSO observation record. CALIPSO International Symposium on Spaceborne Lidar, Jun 2024, Saint Malo, France. ⟨insu-04599448⟩
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