Observations of stratospheric aerosols associated with the El Chichon eruption

Details Observations of stratospheric aerosols associated with the El Chichon eruption Observations of stratospheric aerosols associated with the El Chichon eruption

Aug 1986

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In NASA. Langley Research Center 13th International Laser Radar Conference 1 p (SEE N87-10263 01-35)

Computer Science

Aerosols, Atmospheric Circulation, Optical Radar, Stratosphere, Volcanoes, Atmospheric Density, Backscattering, Extinction, Pollution Transport, Tropopause, Yag Lasers

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Lidar observations of aerosols were carried out at Aberystwyth between Nov. 1982 and Dec. 1985 using a frequency doubled and frequency tripled Nd/Yag laser and a receiver incorporating a 1 m diameter in a Newtonian telescope configuration. In analyses of the experimental data attention is paid to the magnitude of the coefficient relating extinction and backscatter, the choice being related to the possible presence of aerosols in the upper troposphere and the atmospheric densities employed in the normalisation procedure. The aerosol loading showed marked day to day changes in early months and an overall decay was apparent only after April 1983, this decay being consistent with an e sup -1 time of about 7 months. The general decay was accompanied by a lowering of the layer but layers of aerosols were shown intermittently at heights above the main layer in winter months. The height variations of photon counts corrected for range, or of aerosol backscatter ratio, showed clear signatures of the tropopause. A strong correlation was found between the heights of the tropopause identified from the lidar measurements and from radiosonde-borne temperature measurements. A notable feature of the observations is the appearance of very sharp height gradients of backscatter ratio which seem to be produced by differential advection.

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