Evolution of the Pinatubo volcanic cloud over Hampton, Virginia

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May 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995georl..22.1101o&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 22, no. 9, p. 1101-1104

Physics

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Aerosols, Atmospheric Scattering, Dust, Stratosphere, Vertical Distribution, Virginia, Volcanoes, Backscattering, Optical Radar, Philippines, Rayleigh Scattering, Ruby Lasers

Scientific paper

The eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in June 1991 produced the largest enhancement of stratospheric aerosol loading ever observed by lidar over Hampton, Virginia. Low altitude layers (less than 20 km) were the first to arrive over Hampton in early August, the result of transport associated with a tropospheric anticyclonic cell over North America. The maximum peak scattering ratio, 34 at 22.4 km, and the maximum stratospheric integrated backscatter of 0.0053 sr(exp -1), both at 694 nm, observed since the eruption were measured on February 20, 1992. After decreasing during the spring and summer of 1992, the aerosol burden increased significantly during the winter of 1992-93, evidence of a poleward winter transport from the equatorial reservoir. Over the period from February 1992 to February 1994, the stratospheric aerosol loading decreased with an average 1/e decay time of 10.1 months. The vertical distribution, intensity, and transport of Pinatubo aerosols over this site are described and compared with similar measurements after El Chichon.

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