Articles | Volume 22, issue 17
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-11049-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-11049-2022
Research article
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31 Aug 2022
Research article |  | 31 Aug 2022

Dynamical perturbation of the stratosphere by a pyrocumulonimbus injection of carbonaceous aerosols

Giorgio Doglioni, Valentina Aquila, Sampa Das, Peter R. Colarco, and Dino Zardi

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GEOS CCM free-running simulation data of the Pacific-Northwest pyrocumulonimbus Event-like aerosol injection, SWIRL selection Giorgio Doglioni https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6366106

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We use a global chemistry climate model to analyze the perturbations to the stratospheric dynamics caused by an injection of carbonaceous aerosol comparable to the one caused by a series of pyrocumulonimbi that formed over British Columbia, Canada on 13 August 2017. The injection of light-absorbing aerosol in an otherwise clean lower stratosphere causes the formation of long-lasting stratospheric anticyclones at the synoptic scale.
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