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Research article
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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
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- Investigation of Volcanic Emissions in the Mediterranean: “The Etna–Antikythera Connection” A. Kampouri et al. 10.3390/atmos12010040
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- In-plume and out-of-plume analysis of aerosol–cloud interactions derived from the 2014–2015 Holuhraun volcanic eruption A. Peace et al. 10.5194/acp-24-9533-2024
- Russian Studies of Atmospheric Ozone and Its Precursors in 2015–2018 N. Elansky 10.1134/S0001433820020048
- A physically based correction for stray light in Brewer spectrophotometer data analysis V. Savastiouk et al. 10.5194/amt-16-4785-2023
- Tracking the Transport of SO2 and Sulphate Aerosols from the Tonga Volcanic Eruption to South Africa L. Shikwambana et al. 10.3390/atmos14101556
- Detection of the dispersion and residence of volcanic SO2 and sulfate aerosol from Nabro in 2011 Y. Liu et al. 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2018.10.022
- Aerosol optical depth determination in the UV using a four-channel precision filter radiometer T. Carlund et al. 10.5194/amt-10-905-2017
- Long-term variability of human health-related solar ultraviolet-B radiation doses from the 1980s to the end of the 21st century C. Zerefos et al. 10.1152/physrev.00031.2022
- Satellite-derived sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions from the 2014–2015 Holuhraun eruption (Iceland) E. Carboni et al. 10.5194/acp-19-4851-2019
- The world Brewer reference triad – updated performance assessment and new double triad X. Zhao et al. 10.5194/amt-14-2261-2021
- Implementing the Model/View architecture in software of Brewer Network Spectrophotometer for long-term monitoring of UV radiation and ozone atmospheric content V. Savinykh & O. Postylyakov 10.1088/1755-1315/231/1/012045
- Synergetic Aerosol Layer Observation After the 2015 Calbuco Volcanic Eruption Event F. J. S. Lopes et al. 10.3390/rs11020195
- Investigation of Volcanic Emissions in the Mediterranean: “The Etna–Antikythera Connection” A. Kampouri et al. 10.3390/atmos12010040
- The Combined Effect of Ozone and Aerosols on Erythemal Irradiance in an Extremely Low Ozone Event during May 2020 I. Raptis et al. 10.3390/atmos12020145
- The site-specific primary calibration conditions for the Brewer spectrophotometer X. Zhao et al. 10.5194/amt-16-2273-2023
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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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