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Australian bushfire emissions result in enhanced polar stratospheric clouds
Srinivasan Prasanth
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Department of Physics and Electronics, Christ University, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Divecha Centre for Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Narayana Sarma Anand
School of Earth, Environmental and Sustainability Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram, Vithura, Kerala, India
Kudilil Sunilkumar
Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Subin Jose
Department of Physics, Newman College, Thodupuzha, Kerala, India
Kenath Arun
Department of Physics and Electronics, Christ University, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Sreedharan K. Satheesh
Divecha Centre for Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
DST-Centre of Excellence in Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Krishnaswamy Krishna Moorthy
Divecha Centre for Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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We study the impact of the 2019–2020 Australian bushfires on stratospheric chemistry and polar stratospheric cloud (PSC) dynamics. Our results show that the stratospheric intrusion of bushfire aerosols significantly increases nitric acid in the lower stratosphere, thereby increasing the PSC volume during the Austral winter. Notably, rapid ice PSC nucleation on nitric acid trihydrate particles leads to unusually high ice PSC volumes, highlighting the response of PSCs to an enhanced stratospheric aerosol scenario.
We study the impact of the 2019–2020 Australian bushfires on stratospheric chemistry and polar...
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