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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-551-2017
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-551-2017
© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Research article
| 
11 Jan 2017
Research article |
| 11 Jan 2017
Detecting volcanic sulfur dioxide plumes in the Northern Hemisphere using the Brewer spectrophotometers, other networks, and satellite observations
Christos S. Zerefos
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Research Centre for Atmospheric Physics and Climatology, Academy of
Athens, Athens, Greece
Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece
Navarino Environmental Observatory (N.E.O.), Messinia, Greece
Mariolopoulos-Kanaginis Foundation for the Environmental Sciences,
Athens, Greece
Kostas Eleftheratos
Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece
Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, National and Kapodistrian
University of Athens, Athens, Greece
John Kapsomenakis
Research Centre for Atmospheric Physics and Climatology, Academy of
Athens, Athens, Greece
Stavros Solomos
Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote
Sensing (IAASARS), National Observatory of Athens, Athens, Greece
Antje Inness
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Reading,
UK
Dimitris Balis
Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
Thessaloniki, Greece
Alberto Redondas
Izaña Atmospheric Research Center, AEMET, Tenerife, Canary
Islands, Spain
Henk Eskes
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), De Bilt, the
Netherlands
Marc Allaart
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), De Bilt, the
Netherlands
Vassilis Amiridis
Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote
Sensing (IAASARS), National Observatory of Athens, Athens, Greece
Arne Dahlback
Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Veerle De Bock
Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
Henri Diémoz
ARPA Valle d'Aosta, Saint-Christophe, Italy
Ronny Engelmann
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany
Paul Eriksen
Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
Vitali Fioletov
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, Canada
Julian Gröbner
PMOD/WRC, Davos Dorf, Switzerland
Anu Heikkilä
Climate Change Unit, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki,
Finland
Irina Petropavlovskikh
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences,
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Janusz Jarosławski
Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Weine Josefsson
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping,
Sweden
Tomi Karppinen
Arctic Research Centre, Finnish Meteorological Institute,
Sodankylä, Finland
Ulf Köhler
DWD, Meteorological Observatory Hohenpeißenberg, Hohenpeißenberg, Germany
Charoula Meleti
Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
Thessaloniki, Greece
Christos Repapis
Mariolopoulos-Kanaginis Foundation for the Environmental Sciences,
Athens, Greece
John Rimmer
Centre for Atmospheric Science, School of Earth, Atmospheric and
Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
Vladimir Savinykh
A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Kislovodsk, Russia
Vadim Shirotov
Institute of Experimental Meteorology, Obninsk, Russia
Anna Maria Siani
Department of Physics, Sapienza, University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Andrew R. D. Smedley
Centre for Atmospheric Science, School of Earth, Atmospheric and
Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
Martin Stanek
Solar and Ozone Observatory, Czech Hydrometeorological Institute,
Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
René Stübi
Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, MeteoSwiss, Payerne,
Switzerland
Data sets
SO2 columns World Ozone and Ultraviolet Radiation Data Centre http://woudc.org/
SO2 columns NOAA-EPA Brewer Spectrophotometer UV and Ozone Network https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/grad/neubrew/
OMI and GOME-2 satellite SO2 data products Aura Validation Data Center http://avdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.php?site=_245276100
Surface SO2 concentrations over Europe European Environment Agency databases http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/aqereporting-1#tab-european-data
Short summary
The paper makes a convincing case that the Brewer network is capable of detecting enhanced SO2 columns, as observed, e.g., after volcanic eruptions. For this reason, large volcanic eruptions of the past decade have been used to detect and forecast SO2 plumes of volcanic origin using the Brewer and other ground-based networks, aided by satellite, trajectory analysis calculations and modelling.
The paper makes a convincing case that the Brewer network is capable of detecting enhanced SO2...
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