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

Ohneiser, Kevin; Ansmann, Albert; Chudnovsky, Alexandra; Engelmann, Ronny; Ritter, Christoph; Veselovskii, Igor; Baars, Holger; Gebauer, Henriette; Griesche, Hannes; Radenz, Martin; Hofer, Julian; Althausen, Dietrich; Dahlke, Sandro; Maturilli, Marion

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-15783-2021

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-15783-2021

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-15783-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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22 Oct 2021

Research article |

| 22 Oct 2021

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

Kevin Ohneiser, Albert Ansmann, Alexandra Chudnovsky, Ronny Engelmann, Christoph Ritter, Igor Veselovskii, Holger Baars, Henriette Gebauer, Hannes Griesche, Martin Radenz, Julian Hofer, Dietrich Althausen, Sandro Dahlke, and Marion Maturilli

Data sets

Optical aerosol proﬁles from the Raman Lidar Polly-XT during MOSAiC Ohneiser, K., Ansmann, A., Engelmann, R., Griesche, H., Radenz, M., Hofer, J., and Althausen, D. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.935539

Lidar data base PollyNet(2021) http://polly.rsd.tropos.de/

NASA Earthdata CALIOP(2021) https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?fp=CALIPSO&fi=CALIOP

Fire Information for ResourceManagement System FIRMS(2021) https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#z:5;c:144.3,-27. 9;t:adv-points;d:2019-12-20..2020-01-20;l:firms_viirs

Combined Dark Target and Deep Blue AOD at 0.55 micron for land and ocean terra MOD08_M3_v6 MODIS(2021) https://giovanni.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Ozone sonde profiles during MOSAiC Leg 1-2-3 P. von der Gathen and M. Maturilli https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.919538

Initial radiosonde data from 2019-10 to 2020-09 during project MOSAiC M. Maturilli, D. J. Holdridge, S. Dahlke, J. Graeser, A. Sommerfeld, R. Jaiser, H. Deckelmann, and A. Schulz https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.928656

Short summary

The highlight of the lidar measurements during the 1-year MOSAiC (Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate) expedition of the German icebreaker Polarstern (October 2019–October 2020) was the detection of a persistent, 10 km deep Siberian wildfire smoke layer in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS) from about 7–8 km to 17–18 km height that could potentially have impacted the record-breaking ozone depletion over the Arctic in the spring of 2020.