The ten-year pattern (1978-1987) of stratospheric aerosol loading using ground-based radiometry

Conference · Thu Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1988

OSTI ID:6760856

Michalsky, J J; Pearson, E W; LeBaron, B A

In this paper the procedures used to obtain a stratospheric measurement with ground-based sun radiometry are reviewed briefly. The five-wavelength optical depths are then used to study the evolution of aerosol size during the decade. The time history of loading from the instruments described are compared. Particular emphasis will be placed on the Garmisch-Partenkirchen data because their latitude is very nearly that of the PNL site. The most useful data for this study are those observational records that measure total stratospheric aerosol burden and include the early period and continue throughout the eruption and decay of El Chichon. The lidar data from Langley Research Center and Fraunhofer-Institute for Atmospheric Environmental Research at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the SAM II satellite data, and the Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL) sun radiometry are the published contiguous measurements of the stratosphere aerosol burden during this period. 16 refs., 6 figs.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 6760856
• Report Number(s): PNL-SA-16278; CONF-8808125-3; ON: DE89001706
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
AEROSOLS
ANNUAL VARIATIONS
ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
COLLOIDS
COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS
DATA BASE MANAGEMENT
DISPERSIONS
EARTH ATMOSPHERE
EVALUATION
MANAGEMENT
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
PARTICLES
PARTICULATES
QUANTITATIVE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
RADIATION EFFECTS
RADIOMETRIC ANALYSIS
SOLS
STRATOSPHERE
VARIATIONS
VOLCANISM