Articles | Volume 13, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-5643-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-5643-2020
Research article
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22 Oct 2020
Research article |  | 22 Oct 2020

Stratospheric aerosol extinction profiles from SCIAMACHY solar occultation

Stefan Noël, Klaus Bramstedt, Alexei Rozanov, Elizaveta Malinina, Heinrich Bovensmann, and John P. Burrows

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Short summary
A new approach to derive stratospheric aerosol extinction profiles from SCIAMACHY solar occultation measurements based on an onion-peeling method is presented. The resulting extinctions at 452, 525 and 750 nm compare well with other limb and occultation data from, e.g. SAGE and SCIAMACHY, but show small oscillating features which vanish in monthly anomalies. Major volcanic eruptions, polar stratospheric clouds and influences of the quasi-biennial oscillation can be identified in the time series.