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Citation

Michelangeli DV, Allen M, Yung YL, Shia RL, Crisp D, Eluszkiewicz J. J. Geophys. Res. 1992; 97(D1): 865-874.

Affiliation

CA Inst Tech, Pasadena, Dept Geol & Planet Sci

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, American Geophysical Union)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

11538387

Abstract

The presence of a stratospheric haze layer may produce increases in both the actinic flux and the irradiance below this layer. Such haze layers result from the injection of aerosol-forming material into the stratosphere by volcanic eruptions. Simple heuristic arguments show that the increase in flux below the haze layer, relative to a clear sky case, is a consequence of "photon trapping." We explore the magnitude of these flux perturbations, as a function of aerosol properties and illumination conditions, with a new radiative transfer model that can accurately compute fluxes in an inhomogenous atmosphere with nonconservative scatterers having arbitrary phase function. One calculated consequence of the El Chichon volcanic eruption is an increase in the midday surface actinic flux at 20 degrees N latitude, summer, by as much as 45% at 2900 angstroms. This increase in flux in the UV-B wavelength range was caused entirely by aerosol scattering, without any reduction in the overhead ozone column.


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