TY  - JOUR
AU  - Khaykin, Sergey
AU  - Podglajen, Aurelien
AU  - Ploeger, Felix
AU  - Grooß, Jens-Uwe
AU  - Tence, Florent
AU  - Bekki, Slimane
AU  - Khlopenkov, Konstantin
AU  - Bedka, Kristopher
AU  - Rieger, Landon
AU  - Baron, Alexandre
AU  - Godin-Beekmann, Sophie
AU  - Legras, Bernard
AU  - Sellitto, Pasquale
AU  - Sakai, Tetsu
AU  - Barnes, John
AU  - Uchino, Osamu
AU  - Morino, Isamu
AU  - Nagai, Tomohiro
AU  - Wing, Robin
AU  - Baumgarten, Gerd
AU  - Gerding, Michael
AU  - Duflot, Valentin
AU  - Payen, Guillaume
AU  - Jumelet, Julien
AU  - Querel, Richard
AU  - Liley, Ben
AU  - Bourassa, Adam
AU  - Clouser, Benjamin
AU  - Feofilov, Artem
AU  - Hauchecorne, Alain
AU  - Ravetta, François
TI  - Global perturbation of stratospheric water and aerosol burden by Hunga eruption
JO  - Communications earth & environment
VL  - 3
IS  - 1
SN  - 2662-4435
CY  - London
PB  - Springer Nature
M1  - FZJ-2022-05941
SP  - 316
PY  - 2022
AB  - The eruption of the submarine Hunga volcano in January 2022 was associated with a powerful blast that injected volcanic material to altitudes up to 58 km. From a combination of various types of satellite and ground-based observations supported by transport modeling, we show evidence for an unprecedented increase in the global stratospheric water mass by 13% relative to climatological levels, and a 5-fold increase of stratospheric aerosol load, the highest in the last three decades. Owing to the extreme injection altitude, the volcanic plume circumnavigated the Earth in only 1 week and dispersed nearly pole-to-pole in three months. The unique nature and magnitude of the global stratospheric perturbation by the Hunga eruption ranks it among the most remarkable climatic events in the modern observation era, with a range of potential long-lasting repercussions for stratospheric composition and climate.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000899243600001
DO  - DOI:10.1038/s43247-022-00652-x
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/916110
ER  -