On 15 January 2022, the submarine Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcanic eruption lofted materials high into the upper stratosphere, reaching a record-breaking altitude of ~58 km, unprecedented in the satellite observations era. Within two weeks, the bulk of the injected material circulated the globe between 20 – 30 km altitude, as observed by the OMPS LP instrument. Initial predictions suggested...
The 2022 eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano caused substantial impacts on the atmosphere, including a large increase of stratospheric aerosol at high altitudes and a massive injection of water vapor. We show results from application of a two-dimensional tomographic retrieval of aerosol extinction profiles from limb scattered sunlight made by the NASA OMPS Limb Profiler...
Climate-related studies need information about the distribution of stratospheric aerosols, which impact the energy balance of the Earth’s atmosphere. In this work, we present a merged dataset of vertically resolved stratospheric aerosol extinction coefficients, which is derived from data by six limb and occultation satellite instruments: SAGE II on ERBS, GOMOS and SCIAMACHY on Envisat, OSIRIS...
