Australia's Black Summer pyrocumulonimbus super outbreak reveals potential for increasingly extreme stratospheric smoke events

DA Peterson, MD Fromm, RHD McRae… - NPJ climate and …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The Black Summer fire season of 2019–2020 in southeastern Australia contributed
to an intense 'super outbreak'of fire-induced and smoke-infused thunderstorms, known as …

Understanding the critical elements of the pyrocumulonimbus storm sparked by high-intensity wildland fire

M Fromm, R Servranckx, BJ Stocks… - Communications Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
High-intensity wildland fires can produce extreme flaming and smoke emissions that
develop into a fire-cloud chimney, reaching into the upper troposphere or lower …

The unexpected radiative impact of the Hunga Tonga eruption of 15th January 2022

P Sellitto, A Podglajen, R Belhadji, M Boichu… - … Earth & Environment, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The underwater Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha-apai volcano erupted in the early hours of
15th January 2022, and injected volcanic gases and aerosols to over 50 km altitude. Here …

Global perturbation of stratospheric water and aerosol burden by Hunga eruption

S Khaykin, A Podglajen, F Ploeger, JU Grooß… - … Earth & Environment, 2022 - nature.com
The eruption of the submarine Hunga volcano in January 2022 was associated with a
powerful blast that injected volcanic material to altitudes up to 58 km. From a combination of …

Tracking the 2022 Hunga Tonga‐Hunga Ha'apai aerosol cloud in the upper and middle stratosphere using space‐based observations

G Taha, R Loughman, PR Colarco… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract On 15 January 2022, the submarine Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption lofted
materials high into the upper stratosphere, reaching a record‐breaking altitude of∼ 58 km …

The worldwide COVID-19 lockdown impacts on global secondary inorganic aerosols and radiative budget

T Sekiya, K Miyazaki, H Eskes, K Bowman, K Sudo… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Global lockdown measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-
19) led to air pollutant emission reductions. While the COVID-19 lockdown impacts on both …

[HTML][HTML] Interactive stratospheric aerosol models' response to different amounts and altitudes of SO injection during the 1991 Pinatubo eruption

I Quaglia, C Timmreck, U Niemeier… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - acp.copernicus.org
A previous model intercomparison of the Tambora aerosol cloud has highlighted substantial
differences among simulated volcanic aerosol properties in the pre-industrial stratosphere …

Eruption chronology of the December 2021 to January 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai eruption sequence

AK Gupta, R Bennartz, KE Fauria, T Mittal - Communications Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The 15 January 2022 eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai, and the preceding
eruptions on 19 December 2021 and 13 January 2022, were remarkable, partly because the …

[HTML][HTML] The unexpected smoke layer in the High Arctic winter stratosphere during MOSAiC 2019–2020

K Ohneiser, A Ansmann, A Chudnovsky… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
Abstract During the 1-year MOSAiC (Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of
Arctic Climate) expedition, the German icebreaker Polarstern drifted through Arctic Ocean …

[HTML][HTML] The 2019 Raikoke volcanic eruption–Part 1: Dispersion model simulations and satellite retrievals of volcanic sulfur dioxide

J de Leeuw, A Schmidt, CS Witham… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
Volcanic eruptions can cause significant disruption to society, and numerical models are
crucial for forecasting the dispersion of erupted material. Here we assess the skill and …