Volcanic aerosol and ozone depletion within the Antarctic polar vortex during the austral spring of 1991

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Sep 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992georl..19.1819d&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 19, no. 18, p. 1819-1822.

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Aerosols, Antarctic Regions, Effusives, Ozone Depletion, Spring (Season), Nucleation, Ozonometry, Particle Size Distribution

Scientific paper

In the spring of 1991 the Antarctic lower stratosphere was characterized by a layer of volcanic aerosol from the Cerro Hudson eruption. This aerosol layer was observed from McMurdo Station, Antarctica, with both lidar and balloonborne particle counters beginning around 10 September. After 20 September the aerosol was observed daily between 9 and 13 km. In this layer homogeneous nucleation of new aerosol was observed with concentrations greater than 6000/cu cm. Comparisons of scattering ratio calculated from measured particle size distributions agree best with the lidar measurements when a real index of refraction near 1.5 is used. In the past 5 years of measurements, ozone below 13 km has been relatively unchanged during the annual Antartic ozone depletion; however, in 1991 ozone below 13 km decreased at a rate of 4 - 8 ppb/day over 30 days. This change began shortly after the appearance of the volcanic aerosol, providing direct measurements correlating volcanic aerosol and ozone depletion.

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