Shipborne lidar measurements showing the progression of the tropical reservoir of volcanic aerosol after the June 1991 Pinatubo eruption

Antuña-Marrero, Juan-Carlos; Mann, Graham W.; Keckhut, Philippe; Avdyushin, Sergey; Nardi, Bruno; Thomason, Larry W.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2843-2020

Articles | Volume 12, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2843-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2843-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 4

Data description paper

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14 Nov 2020

Data description paper |

| 14 Nov 2020

Shipborne lidar measurements showing the progression of the tropical reservoir of volcanic aerosol after the June 1991 Pinatubo eruption

Juan-Carlos Antuña-Marrero, Graham W. Mann, Philippe Keckhut, Sergey Avdyushin, Bruno Nardi, and Larry W. Thomason

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2843-2020-supplement

Data sets

Ship borne lidar measurements in the Atlantic of the 1991 Mt Pinatubo eruption. Juan-Carlos Antuña-Marrero, Graham W. Mann, Philippe Keckhut, Sergey I. Avdyushin, Bruno Nardi, and Larry W. Thomason, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.912770

Short summary

We report the recovery of lidar measurements of the 1991 Pinatubo eruption. Two Soviet ships crossing the tropical Atlantic in July–September 1991 and January–February 1992 measured the vertical profile of the Pinatubo cloud at different points in its spatio-temporal evolution. The datasets provide valuable new information on the eruption's impacts on climate, with the SAGE-II satellite measurements not able to measure most of the lower half of the Pinatubo cloud in the tropics in this period.