Fig. 3: The zonal mean column sAOD (stratospheric aerosol optical depth, background aerosol + volcanic aerosol). | Communications Earth & Environment

Fig. 3: The zonal mean column sAOD (stratospheric aerosol optical depth, background aerosol + volcanic aerosol).

From: Perturbations in stratospheric aerosol evolution due to the water-rich plume of the 2022 Hunga-Tonga eruption

Fig. 3

The top panel shows the OMPS LP (the Ozone Mapping and Profiling Suite Limb Profiler) at 997 nm. The middle and bottom panels show the simulated near-infrared sAOD (stratospheric aerosol optical depth) for cases without (the SO2only case) and with the water injection (the SO2_H2O case).

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