A 2003 stratospheric aerosol extinction and PSC climatology from GOMOS measurements on Envisat

[摘要] Stratospheric aerosols play an important role in a number of atmosphericissues such as midlatitude ozone depletion, atmospheric dynamics and theEarth radiative budget. Polar stratospheric clouds on the other hand are acrucial factor in the yearly Arctic and Antarctic ozone depletion. It istherefore important to quantify the stratospheric aerosol/PSC abundance. Inorbit since March 2002, the GOMOS instrument onboard the European Envisatsatellite has provided a vast aerosol extinction data set. In this paper wepresent aerosol/PSC zonal median values that were constructed from this dataset, together with a discussion of the results.

[学科分类] 大气科学