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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-7417-2022
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Australian wildfire smoke in the stratosphere: the decay phase in 2020/2021 and impact on ozone depletion
Kevin Ohneiser
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Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany
Albert Ansmann
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany
Bernd Kaifler
Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Alexandra Chudnovsky
Porter School of Earth Sciences and Environment, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Boris Barja
Atmospheric Research Laboratory, University of Magallanes, Punta Arenas, Chile
Daniel A. Knopf
School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5000, USA
Natalie Kaifler
Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Holger Baars
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany
Patric Seifert
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany
Diego Villanueva
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany
Cristofer Jimenez
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany
Martin Radenz
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany
Ronny Engelmann
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany
Igor Veselovskii
Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Félix Zamorano
Atmospheric Research Laboratory, University of Magallanes, Punta Arenas, Chile
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Wildfires have attracted increasing attention in recent years because of their effects on local air quality, as well as on regional and global climate. Ohneiser et al. documents with impressive accuracy the appearance of wildfire plumes in the stratosphere over Australia in 2020/2021, showing strong influence on stratospheric ozone. We recommend readers to read this paper together with Solomon et al. ("On the stratospheric chemistry of midlatitude wildfire smoke", PNAS 2022,https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2117325119). Both studies highlight the importance of wildfires for stratospheric chemistry and the recovery of the ozone layer in a warming climate.
Wildfires have attracted increasing attention in recent years because of their effects on local...
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We present and discuss 2 years of long-term lidar observations of the largest stratospheric perturbation by wildfire smoke ever observed. The smoke originated from the record-breaking Australian fires in 2019–2020 and affects climate conditions and even the ozone layer in the Southern Hemisphere. The obvious link between dense smoke occurrence in the stratosphere and strong ozone depletion found in the Arctic and in the Antarctic in 2020 can be regarded as a new aspect of climate change.
We present and discuss 2 years of long-term lidar observations of the largest stratospheric...
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