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Articles | Volume 25, issue 12
Articles | Volume 25, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-6353-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-6353-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 25, issue 12
Research article
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26 Jun 2025
Research article |  | 26 Jun 2025

The optical properties of the stratospheric aerosol layer perturbation of the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai volcano eruption of 15 January 2022

Pasquale Sellitto, Redha Belhadji, Bernard Legras, Aurélien Podglajen, and Clair Duchamp

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The Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted on 15 January 2022, producing the largest stratospheric aerosol perturbation of the last 30 years. Stratospheric volcanic aerosols usually produce a transient climate cooling; these impacts depend on volcanic aerosol composition/size, due to size-dependent interactions with solar/terrestrial radiation. We demonstrate that the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai stratospheric aerosols have a larger cooling potential per unit mass than the past climate-relevant El Chichón (1984) and Pinatubo (1991) eruptions.
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