Measurement report: Violent biomass burning and volcanic eruptions – a new period of elevated stratospheric aerosol over central Europe (2017 to 2023) in a long series of observations

Trickl, Thomas; Vogelmann, Hannes; Fromm, Michael D.; Jäger, Horst; Perfahl, Matthias; Steinbrecht, Wolfgang

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-1997-2024

Articles | Volume 24, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-1997-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-1997-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 24, issue 3

Measurement report

|

14 Feb 2024

Measurement report |

| 14 Feb 2024

Measurement report: Violent biomass burning and volcanic eruptions – a new period of elevated stratospheric aerosol over central Europe (2017 to 2023) in a long series of observations

Thomas Trickl, Hannes Vogelmann, Michael D. Fromm, Horst Jäger, Matthias Perfahl, and Wolfgang Steinbrecht

Data sets

NDACC stratospheric aerosol LIDAR data from the station Garmisch-Partenkirchen Thomas Trickl et al. https://doi.org/10.60897/garmisch_v01_lidar

NDACC stratospheric aerosol LIDAR data from the station Schneefernerhaus on Mt. Zugspitze H. Vogelmann et al. https://doi.org/10.60897/zugspitze_v01_lidar

Short summary

In 2023, the lidar team at Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany) celebrated its 50th year of aerosol profiling. The highlight of these activities has been the lidar measurements of stratospheric aerosol carried out since 1976. The observations since 2017 are characterized by severe smoke from several big fires in North America and Siberia and three volcanic eruptions. The sudden increase in the frequency of such strong fire events is difficult to understand.