Retrieval of stratospheric aerosol extinction coefficients from sun-normalized Ozone Mapper and Profiler Suite Limb Profiler (OMPS-LP) measurements

Rozanov, Alexei; Pohl, Christine; Arosio, Carlo; Bourassa, Adam; Bramstedt, Klaus; Malinina, Elizaveta; Rieger, Landon; Burrows, John P.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-6677-2024

Articles | Volume 17, issue 22

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-6677-2024

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-6677-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 22

Research article

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25 Nov 2024

Research article |

| 25 Nov 2024

Retrieval of stratospheric aerosol extinction coefficients from sun-normalized Ozone Mapper and Profiler Suite Limb Profiler (OMPS-LP) measurements

Alexei Rozanov, Christine Pohl, Carlo Arosio, Adam Bourassa, Klaus Bramstedt, Elizaveta Malinina, Landon Rieger, and John P. Burrows

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-6677-2024-supplement

Data sets

SAGE III/ISS L2 Solar Event Species Profiles (HDF5) V053 NASA/LARC/SD/ASDC https://doi.org/10.5067/ISS/SAGEIII/SOLAR_HDF5_L2-V5.3

Short summary

We developed a new algorithm to retrieve vertical distributions of aerosol extinction coefficients in the stratosphere. The algorithm is applied to measurements of scattered solar light from the spaceborne OMPS-LP (Ozone Mapper and Profiler Suite Limb Profiler) instrument. The retrieval results are compared to data from other spaceborne instruments and used to investigate the evolution of the aerosol plume following the eruption of the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai volcano in January 2022.