Communications Earth & Environment (Dec 2022)

Global perturbation of stratospheric water and aerosol burden by Hunga eruption

  • Sergey Khaykin,
  • Aurelien Podglajen,
  • Felix Ploeger,
  • Jens-Uwe Grooß,
  • Florent Tence,
  • Slimane Bekki,
  • Konstantin Khlopenkov,
  • Kristopher Bedka,
  • Landon Rieger,
  • Alexandre Baron,
  • Sophie Godin-Beekmann,
  • Bernard Legras,
  • Pasquale Sellitto,
  • Tetsu Sakai,
  • John Barnes,
  • Osamu Uchino,
  • Isamu Morino,
  • Tomohiro Nagai,
  • Robin Wing,
  • Gerd Baumgarten,
  • Michael Gerding,
  • Valentin Duflot,
  • Guillaume Payen,
  • Julien Jumelet,
  • Richard Querel,
  • Ben Liley,
  • Adam Bourassa,
  • Benjamin Clouser,
  • Artem Feofilov,
  • Alain Hauchecorne,
  • François Ravetta

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00652-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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The eruption of the submarine Hunga volcano in January 2022 led to a 13% increase in global stratospheric water mass and a 5-fold increase in stratospheric aerosol load, according to satellite data complemented by ground-based observations and atmospheric transport modelling.