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Articles | Volume 18, issue 23
Articles | Volume 18, issue 23
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-7465-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-7465-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 18, issue 23
Research article
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08 Dec 2025
Research article |  | 08 Dec 2025

Early evolution of the ozone mini-hole generated by the Australian bushfires 2019–2020 observed from satellite and ground-based instruments

Redha Belhadji, Pasquale Sellitto, Maxim Eremenko, Silvia Bucci, Tran M. Nguyet, Martin Schwell, and Bernard Legras

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The 2019–2020 Australian wildfires triggered massive Pyro-cumulonimbus clouds, injecting smoke aerosols into the stratosphere and forming a self-sustaining vortex that reached 35 km altitude. This vortex created a transient ozone mini-hole. Using satellite and ground-based observations, we tracked a 30–40 % initial ozone depletion, which decayed to ~7 % within a month. These findings highlight the impact of extreme wildfires on stratospheric dynamics and ozone composition.
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