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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-3967-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-3967-2022
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28 Mar 2022
Research article |  | 28 Mar 2022

Five-satellite-sensor study of the rapid decline of wildfire smoke in the stratosphere

Bengt G. Martinsson, Johan Friberg, Oscar S. Sandvik, and Moa K. Sporre

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Large amounts of wildfire smoke reached the stratosphere in 2017. The literature on stratospheric aerosol is mainly based on horizontally viewing sensors that saturate in dense smoke. Using also a vertically viewing sensor with orders of magnitude shorter path in the smoke, we show that the horizontally viewing sensors miss a dramatic exponential decline of the aerosol load with a half-life of 10 d, where 80 %–90 % of smoke is lost. We attribute the decline to photolytic loss of organic aerosol.
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