Observed Changes in the Stratospheric Aerosol Loading
Increase in background stratospheric aerosol observed with lidar at Mauna Loa Observatory and Boulder, Colorado
... in stratospheric water vapor of the order of 10% after about 2001 [Randel et ...in aerosol backscatter after 2000, it cannot be ruled out as a contributing ...to changes in stratospheric water ...
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On the observed changes in upper stratospheric and mesospheric temperatures from UARS HALOE
... In the present analysis the SC-like terms have since been determined at all the latitude and pressure-altitude grid points, even where those terms were not in-phase with the flux variations or where they were not so ...
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Stratospheric Aerosol Particle Size Retrieval
... improved aerosol extinction product as well as information on particle size when the mode radius was converted to an ˚ Angstr¨ om ...much aerosol is present the atmosphere has become optically thick and the ...
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An update of observed stratospheric temperature trends
... [ 16 ] As discussed by Shine et al. [2008], the SSU brightness temperature series neglects the impact of Doppler shifting between CO 2 lines in the onboard cell and CO 2 lines in the atmosphere; this Doppler shift is ...
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Diurnal aerosol variations do affect daily averaged radiative forcing under heavy aerosol loading observed in Hefei, China
... of aerosol has been ob- served in many heavily polluted regions in ...direct aerosol radiative forcing (DARF) evaluation if the daily averaged value is used as normal rather than the time-resolved ...
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Stratospheric aerosol - Observations, processes, and impact on climate
... and aerosol observations by a number of in situ and space-based ...of aerosol extinction coefficient after major volcanic eruptions agreed fairly well for visible wavelengths but not in the ...of ...
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The Sectional Stratospheric Sulfate Aerosol module (S3A-v1) within the LMDZ general circulation model: description and evaluation against stratospheric aerosol observations
... on stratospheric aerosols is motivated by their interaction with both incoming solar radiation and out- going terrestrial radiation, and the associated climate re- sponse to such a radiative ...of ...
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The Aerosol Limb Imager: acousto-optic imaging of limb-scattered sunlight for stratospheric aerosol profiling
... In the telescopic layout, collimated light for each line of sight passes through the AOTF. This results in a few funda- mental differences that both improve and degrade the imag- ing quality. First, the light passing ...
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Improvement of stratospheric aerosol extinction retrieval from OMPS/LP using a new aerosol model
... km observed by LP ...of aerosol extinctions at ...is observed between LP ...of aerosol size distribution on aerosol ...km observed by both LP and SAGE III in September–December ...
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A global space-based stratospheric aerosol climatology: 1979–2016
... atmospheric aerosol op- tical depth (Zhao, 2013; Zhao and Chan, 2014), and the GISS stratospheric aerosol 500 nm optical depth (Sato et ...atmospheric aerosol optical depth at 500 nm. ...
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Fog and Cloud Induced Aerosol Modification Observed by AERONET
... Niu, F., Z. Li, C. Li, K.‐H. Lee, and M. Wang (2010), Increase of wintertime fog in China: Potential impacts of weakening of the Eastern Asian monsoon circulation and increasing aerosol loading, J. Geophys. ...
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Size-Resolved Stratospheric Aerosol Distributions after Pinatubo Derived from a Coupled Aerosol-Chemistry-Climate Model
... not observed by AVHRR for each month from the other data sets and subtracted background values from observations and calculations, thereby excluding also the contributions from tropospheric ...aerosols. ...
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ANGEO - Stratospheric background aerosol and polar cloud observations by laser backscattersonde within the framework of the European project "Stratospheric Regular Sounding"
... The Stratospheric Regular Sounding project was planned to measure regularly the vertical pro®les of several tracers like ozone, water vapor, NO x , ClO x and BrO x radicals, aerosol, pressure and ...
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A comparison of predicted and observed ocean tidal loading in Alaska
... Prior to fitting tidal harmonics to the time-series, we first remove offsets associated with known earthquakes and equipment changes using a catalogue of events and offset amplitudes provided by the UNAVCO ...
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Total volcanic stratospheric aerosol optical depths and implications for global climate change
... introduced aerosol into the stratosphere, and this represents a forcing overlooked in climate models until very ...zero stratospheric aerosol after about 2000 and hence neglect any cooling effect of ...
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Improved stratospheric aerosol extinction profiles from SCIAMACHY: validation and sample results
... SCIAMACHY aerosol extinc- tion being lower than the SAGE ...II aerosol extinction; the differences vary with lat- itude and altitude in a complex ...SCIAMACHY aerosol extinctions are generally lower ...
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SCIAMACHY stratospheric aerosol extinction profile retrieval using the OMPS/LP algorithm
... 4.4 Aerosol extinction retrieval overall statistics Figure 13 is a summary plot of the relative difference (per- cent) for all retrieved aerosol extinction profiles used in this study with SAGE II, which ...
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Stratospheric aerosol particle size information in Odin-OSIRIS limb scatter spectra
... an aerosol profile and keeping the aerosol volume constant at each altitude as particle size is ...between aerosol par- ticles; particles of different sizes will change the diffuse ra- diance ...
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Climate system response to stratospheric sulfate aerosols: sensitivity to altitude of aerosol layer
... the stratospheric aerosol experiments, cor- responding changes are simulated in surface ...spatial changes in the global mean surface temperature for the stratospheric aerosol ...
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Stratospheric aerosol evolution after Pinatubo simulated with a coupled size-resolved aerosol–chemistry–climate model, SOCOL-AERv1.0
... coupled aerosol–chemistry– climate model ...on stratospheric aerosol properties and atmospheric ...The aerosol module is cou- pled to the radiative and chemical modules and includes com- ...
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