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    Supporting the detection and monitoring of volcanic clouds: A promising new application of Global Navigation Satellite System radio occultation

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    Biondi, R.
    Steiner, A.K.
    Kirchengast, G.
    Brenot, H.
    Rieck, T.
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    Discipline
    Physical sciences
    Subject
    Atmospheric structure
    Clouds
    Communication satellites
    Radio
    Radio navigation
    Sulfur dioxide
    Volcanoes
    Climate monitoring
    Convective systems
    Global Navigation Satellite Systems
    Nabro
    Radio occultations
    Temperature changes
    Volcanic clouds
    Volcanic eruptions
    Global positioning system
    Audience
    Scientific
    Date
    2017
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    The altitude of volcanic clouds and the atmospheric thermal structure after volcanic eruptions are studied using Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Radio Occultation (RO) profiles co-located with independent radiometer images of ash and sulfur dioxide plumes. We use geographically co-located RO profiles to detect the top altitude of volcanic clouds and to analyze their impact in terms of temperature change signatures. We obtained about 1300 RO profiles co-located with two representative eruptions (Puyehue 2011, Nabro 2011) and found that an anomaly technique recently developed for detecting convective cloud tops and studying the vertical thermal structure of deep convective systems can also be applied to volcanic clouds. Analyzing the atmospheric thermal structure after the eruptions, we found clear cooling signatures induced by volcanic cloud tops in the upper troposphere for the Puyehue case. For the Nabro case we detected a significant warming in the stratosphere which lasted for several months, indicating that the cloud reached the stratosphere. The results are encouraging for future large-scale use of RO data for supporting the monitoring of volcanic clouds and their impacts on weather and climate.
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    Biondi, R.; Steiner, A.K.; Kirchengast, G.; Brenot, H.; Rieck, T. (2017). Supporting the detection and monitoring of volcanic clouds: A promising new application of Global Navigation Satellite System radio occultation. , Advances in Space Research, Vol. 60, Issue 12, 2707-2722, DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2017.06.039.
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    uri: https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/6340
    doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2017.06.039
    scopus: 2-s2.0-85023612878
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    Article
    Peer-Review
    Yes
    Language
    eng
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