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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-1997-2024
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Measurement report
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14 Feb 2024
Measurement report |
| 14 Feb 2024
| 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
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung (IMK-IFU), Kreuzeckbahnstr. 19, 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Hannes Vogelmann
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung (IMK-IFU), Kreuzeckbahnstr. 19, 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Michael D. Fromm
Naval Research Laboratory, 4555 Overlook Avenue, Washington, DC, USA
Horst Jäger
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung (IMK-IFU), Kreuzeckbahnstr. 19, 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Matthias Perfahl
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung (IMK-IFU), Kreuzeckbahnstr. 19, 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Wolfgang Steinbrecht
Meteorologisches Observatorium, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Albin-Schwaiger-Weg 10, 82383 Hohenpeißenberg, Germany
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- Stratospheric aerosol measurements using a Frequency Scanning Lidar method R. Eixmann et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-19-5309-2026
- Large-Scale Network-Based Observations of a Saharan Dust Event across the European Continent in Spring 2022 C. Papanikolaou et al. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16173350
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- Temperature profiles combined from lidar and airglow measurements T. Trickl et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-7477-2025
- Characterization of aerosol properties during a huge transatlantic smoke transport event using Aeolus observations in synergy with multi-platform data K. Sun et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-26-12953-2026
- How reliable are temperature measurements with a large 355-nm Rayleigh lidar at high altitudes? T. Trickl et al. https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202636204017
- Long-term (2010–2021) lidar observations of stratospheric aerosols in Wuhan, China Y. He et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-11431-2024
- Impact of wildfire smoke on Arctic cirrus formation – Part 1: Analysis of MOSAiC 2019–2020 observations A. Ansmann et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-4847-2025
- Stratospheric aerosol perturbation by tropospheric biomass burning and deep convection X. Shen et al. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-025-01821-1
- Testing the hypothesis that Erebus volcano gas emissions partially influence ozone depletion in the Antarctic stratosphere V. Gerasimov et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2026.122045
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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.
In 2023, the lidar team at Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany) celebrated its 50th year of aerosol...
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