Communications Earth & Environment (Oct 2022)
Perturbations in stratospheric aerosol evolution due to the water-rich plume of the 2022 Hunga-Tonga eruption
- Yunqian Zhu,
- Charles G. Bardeen,
- Simone Tilmes,
- Michael J. Mills,
- Xinyue Wang,
- V. Lynn Harvey,
- Ghassan Taha,
- Douglas Kinnison,
- Robert W. Portmann,
- Pengfei Yu,
- Karen H. Rosenlof,
- Melody Avery,
- Corinna Kloss,
- Can Li,
- Anne S. Glanville,
- Luis Millán,
- Terry Deshler,
- Nickolay Krotkov,
- Owen B. Toon
Affiliations
- Yunqian Zhu
- Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research
- Charles G. Bardeen
- Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research
- Simone Tilmes
- Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research
- Michael J. Mills
- Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research
- Xinyue Wang
- Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research
- V. Lynn Harvey
- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder
- Ghassan Taha
- GESTAR II, Morgan State University
- Douglas Kinnison
- Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research
- Robert W. Portmann
- Chemical Sciences Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Pengfei Yu
- Institute for Environmental and Climate Research, Jinan University
- Karen H. Rosenlof
- Chemical Sciences Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Melody Avery
- University of Colorado Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory
- Corinna Kloss
- Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l’Environnement et de l’Espace, CNRS UMR 7328, Université d’Orléans
- Can Li
- Goddard Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Anne S. Glanville
- Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research
- Luis Millán
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
- Terry Deshler
- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder
- Nickolay Krotkov
- Goddard Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Owen B. Toon
- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00580-w
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 3,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 7
Abstract
Large amounts of water vapour released to the stratosphere during the 2022 Hunga-Tonga hydromagmatic volcanic eruption led to decreased sulfur dioxide aerosol lifetime, increased sulfate particle size and a doubling of stratospheric aerosol optical depth, according to numerical simulations.
