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© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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Research article
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19 Oct 2015
Research article |
| 19 Oct 2015
A perturbed parameter model ensemble to investigate Mt. Pinatubo's 1991 initial sulfur mass emission
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
now at: School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
D. K. Weisenstein
School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
B.-P. Luo
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
E. Rozanov
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos and World Radiation Center, Davos, Switzerland
F. Arfeuille
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research and Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
now at: Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research, Dübendorf, Switzerland
T. Peter
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- REtrieval Method for optical and physical Aerosol Properties in the stratosphere (REMAPv1) A. Jörimann et al.
- MIPAS observations of volcanic sulfate aerosol and sulfur dioxide in the stratosphere A. Günther et al.
- Radiative and climate impacts of a large volcanic eruption during stratospheric sulfur geoengineering A. Laakso et al.
- Modelling stratospheric composition for the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service: multi-species evaluation of IFS-COMPO Cy49 S. Chabrillat et al.
- Evaluating the link between the sulfur-rich Laacher See volcanic eruption and the Younger Dryas climate anomaly J. Baldini et al.
- A global space-based stratospheric aerosol climatology: 1979–2016 L. Thomason et al.
- Sensitivity of stratospheric ozone to the latitude, season, and halogen content of a contemporary explosive volcanic eruption F. Østerstrøm et al.
- Validating a microphysical prognostic stratospheric aerosol implementation in E3SMv2 using observations after the Mount Pinatubo eruption H. Brown et al.
- Interactive stratospheric aerosol models' response to different amounts and altitudes of SO2 injection during the 1991 Pinatubo eruption I. Quaglia et al.
- Multi-model comparison of the volcanic sulfate deposition from the 1815 eruption of Mt. Tambora L. Marshall et al.
- Mount Pinatubo's effect on the moisture-based drivers of plant productivity R. Singh et al.
- Last-millennium volcanic forcing and climate response using SO2 emissions L. Marshall et al.
- Radiative and Chemical Response to Interactive Stratospheric Sulfate Aerosols in Fully Coupled CESM1(WACCM) M. Mills et al.
- Evaluating the simulated radiative forcings, aerosol properties, and stratospheric warmings from the 1963 Mt Agung, 1982 El Chichón, and 1991 Mt Pinatubo volcanic aerosol clouds S. Dhomse et al.
- The effect of ash, water vapor, and heterogeneous chemistry on the evolution of a Pinatubo-size volcanic cloud M. Abdelkader et al.
- Stratospheric aerosol evolution after Pinatubo simulated with a coupled size-resolved aerosol–chemistry–climate model, SOCOL-AERv1.0 T. Sukhodolov et al.
- The Interactive Stratospheric Aerosol Model Intercomparison Project (ISA-MIP): motivation and experimental design C. Timmreck et al.
- Impact of the Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption on stratospheric composition D. Wilmouth et al.
- Sensitivity of volcanic aerosol dispersion to meteorological conditions: A Pinatubo case study A. Jones et al.
- HSW-V v1.0: localized injections of interactive volcanic aerosols and their climate impacts in a simple general circulation model J. Hollowed et al.
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Short summary
We have conducted a perturbed parameter model ensemble to investigate Mt.
Pinatubo's 1991 initial sulfur mass emission. Our results suggest that (a) the initial mass loading of the Pinatubo eruption is ~14 Mt of SO2; (b) the injection vertical distribution is strongly skewed towards the lower stratosphere, leading to a peak mass sulfur injection at 18-21 km; (c) the injection magnitude and height affect early southward transport of the volcanic cloud observed by SAGE II.
We have conducted a perturbed parameter model ensemble to investigate Mt.
Pinatubo's 1991...
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