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Ozone depletion in tropospheric volcanic plumes

Abstract

We measured ozone O₃ concentrations in the atmospheric plumes of the volcanoes St. Augustine (1976), Mt. Etna (2004, 2009) and Eyjafjallajökull (2010) and found O₃ to be strongly depleted compared to the background at each volcano. At Mt. Etna O₃ was depleted within tens of seconds from the crater, the age of the St. Augustine plumes was on the order of hours, whereas the O₃ destruction in the plume of Eyjafjallajökull was maintained in 1-9 day old plumes. The most likely cause for this O₃ destruction are catalytic bromine reactions as suggested by a model that manages to reproduce the very early destruction of O₃ but also shows that O₃ destruction is ongoing for several days. Given the observed rapid and sustained destruction of O₃, heterogeneous loss of O₃ on ash is unlikely to be important.

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document

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https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7hq40h8

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eng

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2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

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2010-11-18T00:00:00Z

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Copyright 2010 American Geophysical Union.

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OpenSky Support

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UCAR/NCAR - Library

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PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

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opensky@ucar.edu

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OpenSky Support

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UCAR/NCAR - Library

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PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

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opensky@ucar.edu

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http://opensky.ucar.edu/

name: homepage

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2025-12-26T14:09:01.995427

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