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Gwenal Berthet1, Fabrice Jgou1, Valry Catoire1, Gisle Krysztoak1, Jean-Baptiste Renard1, Adam E. Bourassa2, Doug A. Degenstein2, Colette Brogniez3, Marcel Dorf4,a, Sebastian Kreycy4, Klaus Pfeilsticker4, Bodo Werner4, Franck Lefvre5, Tjarda J. Roberts1, Thibaut Lurton1, Damien Vignelles1, Nelson Bgue6, Quentin Bourgeois7, Daniel Daugeron1, Michel Chartier1, Claude Robert1, Bertrand Gaubicher1, and Christophe Guimbaud1
1Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de lEnvironnement et de lEspace (LPC2E), Universit dOrlans, CNRS UMR7328, Orlans, France
2Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
3Laboratoire dOptique Atmosphrique, Universit Lille 1 Sciences et Technologies, CNRS UMR8518, Villeneuve dAscq, France
4Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
5Laboratoire Atmosphres Milieux Observations Spatiales, UPMC, Universit Paris 06, Universit Versailles Saint Quentin, CNRS UMR8190, LATMOS-IPSL, Paris, France
6Laboratoire de lAtmosphre et des Cyclones, UMR8105 CNRS, Universit de la Runion, Saint-Denis de la Runion, France
7Department of Meteorology and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
anow at: Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Department of Atmospheric Chemistry, Mainz, Germany Correspondence to: Gwenal Berthet ([email protected])
Received: 23 August 2016 Discussion started: 14 September 2016
Revised: 7 January 2017 Accepted: 12 January 2017 Published: 14 February 2017
Abstract. The major volcanic eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 has been shown to have signicant effects on stratospheric chemistry and ozone depletion even at midlatitudes. Since then, only moderate but recurrent volcanic eruptions have modulated the stratospheric aerosol loading and are assumed to be one cause for the reported increase in the global aerosol content over the past 15 years. This particularly enhanced aerosol context raises questions about the effects on stratospheric chemistry which depend on the latitude, altitude and season of injection. In this study, we focus on the midlatitude Sarychev volcano eruption in June 2009, which injected 0.9 Tg of sulfur dioxide (about 20 times less than Pinatubo) into a lower stratosphere mainly governed by high-stratospheric temperatures. Together with in situ measurements of aerosol amounts, we analyse high-resolution in situ and/or remote-sensing observations of NO2, HNO3 and BrO from balloon-borne infrared and UVvisible spectrometers launched in Sweden in AugustSeptember 2009. It is shown that differences between observations and three-
Impact of a moderate volcanic eruption on chemistry in the lower stratosphere: balloon-borne observations and model calculations
dimensional (3-D) chemistry-transport model (CTM) outputs are not due to transport calculation issues but rather reect the chemical impact of the volcanic plume below 19 km altitude. Good measurementmodel agreement is obtained when the CTM is driven by volcanic aerosol loadings derived from in situ or space-borne data. As a result of enhanced N2O5 hydrolysis in the Sarychev volcanic aerosol conditions, the model calculates reductions of 45 % and
increases of 11 % in NO2 and HNO3 amounts respectively
over the AugustSeptember 2009 period. The decrease in
NOx abundances is limited due to the expected saturation effect for high aerosol loadings. The links between the various chemical catalytic cycles involving chlorine, bromine, nitrogen and HOx compounds in the lower stratosphere are discussed. The increased BrO amounts ( 22 %) compare
rather well with the balloon-borne observations when volcanic aerosol levels are accounted for in the CTM and appear to be mainly controlled by the coupling with nitrogen chemistry rather than by enhanced BrONO2 hydrolysis. We show
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that the chlorine partitioning is signicantly controlled by enhanced BrONO2 hydrolysis. However, simulated effects of the Sarychev eruption on chlorine activation are very limited in the high-temperature conditions in the stratosphere in the period considered, inhibiting the effect of ClONO2 hydrolysis. As a consequence, the simulated chemical ozone loss due to the Sarychev aerosols is low with a reduction of 22 ppbv
(1.5 %) of the ozone budget around 16 km. This is at least
10 times lower than the maximum ozone depletion from chemical processes (up to 20 %) reported in the North
ern Hemisphere lower stratosphere over the rst year following the Pinatubo eruption. This study suggests that moderate volcanic eruptions have limited chemical effects when occurring at midlatitudes (restricted residence times) and outside winter periods (high-temperature conditions). However, it would be of interest to investigate longer-lasting tropical volcanic plumes or sulfur injections in the wintertime low-temperature conditions.
1 Introduction
In the stratosphere, the photo-oxidation of N2O is the main source of all nitrogen species (NOy). About 97 % of the stratospheric NOy budget can be explained by NO, NO2,
HNO3, ClONO2, and N2O5 compounds, and the partitioning between reactive and reservoir nitrogen species is an important issue in stratospheric ozone chemistry (e.g. Wetzel et al., 2002; Brohede et al., 2008). Nitrogen oxides (NOx = NO + NO2) are major catalysts responsible for sig
nicant ozone destruction in the middle stratosphere. In the gas phase, NOx interacts with the hydrogen and halogen species in catalytic cycles affecting ozone loss rates in the lower stratosphere (e.g. Portmann et al., 1999; Salawitch et al., 2005). Therefore, NOx can also buffer the ozone destruction by halogenated compounds through the formation of ClONO2 and BrONO2 (e.g. Rivire et al., 2004). The HNO3 reservoir is formed from NOx indirectly via the hydrolysis of N2O5 on liquid sulfate aerosols:
N2O5 + H2O(aq) ! 2 HNO3. (R1)
It has been shown that models need to include Reaction (R1)
to better reproduce observations of NOy partitioning at mid-latitude for background aerosol conditions (i.e. in volcanically quiescent periods) in the lower stratosphere (Rodriguez et al., 1991; Granier and Brasseur, 1992; Fahey et al., 1993;Webster et al., 1994; Salawitch et al., 1994b; Sen et al., 1998). This reaction tends to decrease NOx amounts and reduces the ozone loss efciency associated with the NOx catalytic cycle as the less reactive nitrogen reservoir HNO3 is formed (e.g. Rodriguez et al., 1991; Weisenstein, 1991;McElroy et al., 1992). Reaction (R1) is fairly insensitive to temperature and has the potential to greatly reduce reactive nitrogen globally, even under background aerosol conditions.
The hydrolysis of ClONO2 can be expressed by
ClONO2 + H2O(aq) ! HNO3 + HOCl. (R2)
It results in the additional formation of HNO3 on sulfate aerosols and in the formation of reactive chlorine in sunlight, where HOCl is rapidly photolysed releasing Cl radicals (e.g.Hofmann and Solomon, 1989; Prather, 1992; McElroy et al., 1992). This heterogeneous reaction is highly dependent on the water content in the aerosols and has been shown to be of considerable importance in determining the abundance of active chlorine available to destroy ozone under some conditions, i.e. for temperatures typically below 210215 K and where HNO3 photolysis rates are slow (typically in winter at high latitudes) (e.g. Hanson et al., 1994; Tie et al., 1994;Borrmann et al., 1997). However, for higher temperatures the ClONO2 hydrolysis is not expected to be signicant enough to compete with Reaction (R1) on the NOy partitioning under these conditions (Fahey et al., 1993; Cox et al., 1994; Sen et al., 1998). Also, the reaction
ClONO2 + HCl(aq) ! HNO3 + Cl2 (R3) of ClONO2 with dissolved HCl in sulfuric acid droplets has negligible effects on chlorine activation at such temperatures (Hanson et al., 1994; Borrmann et al., 1997).
Some works also suggest that the hydrolysis of BrONO2, BrONO2 + H2O(aq) ! HNO3 + HOBr, (R4)
on background sulfate aerosols also plays a signicant role in ozone depletion in the lower stratosphere with rates almost independent of temperature, making this reaction efcient at all latitudes and for all seasons (Hanson and Ravishankara, 1995; Hanson et al., 1996; Lary et al., 1996; Randeniya et al., 1997; Erle et al., 1998).
After large volcanic eruptions, the aerosol loading in the stratosphere and the surface area densities (hereafter SADs) available for Reaction (R1) to occur are dramatically enhanced (e.g. Deshler et al., 2003). As a result, the amount of ozone-depleting NOx is strongly reduced (e.g. Prather, 1992; Johnston et al., 1992; Fahey et al., 1993; Mills et al., 1993; Solomon et al., 1994; Kondo et al., 1997; Sen et al., 1998; Dhomse et al., 2015), whereas HNO3 amounts increase (Koike et al., 1993, 1994; Webster et al., 1994; Rins-land et al., 2003) as shown for the Pinatubo aerosols. Different chemical impacts on stratospheric ozone are expected depending on the altitude. In the middle stratosphere (above
30 hPa), where ozone loss is dominated by NOx, the presence of volcanic aerosols can result in layers of increased net production of ozone due to the suppression of the NOx cycle by the N2O5 hydrolysis (Hofmann et al., 1994; Bekki and Pyle, 1994; Tie and Brasseur, 1995). In the lower stratosphere, halogen (ClOx and BrOx) and hydrogen (HOx) radicals play a dominant role in ozone depletion, and their abundances, which depend on NOx levels, are increased (in particular for halogen species, as the rate of gas-phase conversion of ClO into the ClONO2 reservoir is reduced), resulting
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about 8 months ending before winter (Haywood et al., 2010;
Kravitz et al., 2011; ONeill et al., 2012; Jgou et al., 2013).
The approach consists in analysing some key aspects of lower-stratospheric chemistry and ozone loss in a context of high aerosol surface area densities and high-stratospheric temperatures using balloon-borne observations conducted in AugustSeptember 2009 from Kiruna/Esrange in Sweden(67.5 N, 21.0 E) within the frame of the StraPolt project.
To our knowledge we show here the rst high-resolution in situ observations of chemical compounds obtained within the volcanic aerosol plume of a moderate eruption. We show that in the period on which the study is focused, N2O5 had reformed and the role of its hydrolysis became important again after the sunlit summer period, justifying the use of these balloon data for the investigation of heterogeneous processes. Aerosol-constrained simulations using a 3-D chemistry transport model (CTM) are compared to the observations. These model calculations ignore possible dynamical effects induced by the volcanic aerosols but are used to estimate the amplitude of the chemical impacts and ozone loss with some comparisons with the post-Pinatubo eruption period.
2 Methodology
2.1 Balloon-borne observations
Our study is based on in situ and remote-sensing balloon-borne observations obtained during summer 2009 in northern Sweden. More details about the instrument descriptions and retrieval techniques are given in the Appendix and in the references. Data can be found in ESPRI data Centre (2016).
2.1.1 In situ observations
Aerosol in situ measurements were performed by the STAC (Stratospheric and Tropospheric Aerosol Counter) instrument which is an optical particle counter providing aerosol size distributions (Ovarlez and Ovarlez, 1995; Renard et al., 2008). This instrument has been used in a number of studies dedicated to the quantication of the aerosol content in the stratosphere at various locations and seasons (e.g. Renard et al., 2002, 2005, 2010). Eight vertical aerosol concentration proles were obtained between August and September 2009 as reported by Jgou et al. (2013).
Our study presents in situ vertical proles of the N2O, NO2 and HNO3 gases as observed by SPIRALE (SPectroscopie InfraRouge dAbsorption par Lasers Embarqus; Moreau et al., 2005) from two balloon ights. Firstly, the measurements during the 7 August 2009 ight (called SPIRALE-07082009 below) were conducted between 02:00 UT (04:00 local time) and 03:20 UT (05:20 local time), corresponding to altitudes of 14 and 34 km respectively. The position of the balloon varied from 67.72 N21.40 E to 67.63 N20.92 E during the ascent. Secondly, for the SPIRALE balloon ight on 24 Au-
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in an enhanced catalysed ozone loss (McElroy et al., 1992;
Granier and Brasseur, 1992; Brasseur and Granier, 1992;Hofmann et al., 1994; McGee et al., 1994; Bekki and Pyle, 1994; Salawitch et al., 1994a, 2005; Tie et al., 1994; Solomon et al., 1996; Solomon, 1999).
However, the NOx-to-HNO3 conversion by Reaction (R1) shows saturation as the aerosol SAD increases because the amount of N2O5 present in the stratosphere is limited by its production rate by the gaseous reaction NO2+ NO3 (Fa
hey et al., 1993; Prather, 1992; Mills et al., 1993; Tie et al., 1994; Solomon et al., 1996; Kondo et al., 1997; Sen et al., 1998). Consequently, ozone loss rates are expected to be limited because the saturation of the NOx / NOy response to the aerosol increase dampens the increase in ClO / Cly (Fahey et al., 1993; Tie et al., 1994). Reaction (R2) does not show such a rapid saturation resulting in enhanced ozone depletion by chlorine catalytic cycles in cold air masses as the aerosol loading increases (Fahey et al., 1993). The BrONO2 hydrolysis through Reaction (R4) is primarily dependent on the aerosol loading and is enhanced in periods of high volcanic aerosol loading. The resulting increase in BrOx and HOx radical concentrations and decrease in HCl (due to enhanced OH) accompanied by an increase in ClOx radicals is expected to give further ozone loss in the lower stratosphere at all latitudes and seasons (Lary et al., 1996).
In periods following major eruptions, the year-to-year variability in stratospheric ozone at northern midlatitudes appears closely linked to dynamical changes induced by the volcanic aerosol radiative perturbation (e.g. Telford et al., 2009; Aquila et al., 2013) and to changes in chlorine partitioning (e.g. Solomon, 1999; Chippereld, 1999). Effects on stratospheric chemistry are expected in periods of elevated chlorine levels from anthropogenic activities (Tie and Brasseur, 1995; Solomon et al., 1996). In the past decade no event comparable to the 1991 Pinatubo or 1982 El Chichn eruptions was observed. However, several volcanic eruptions, though of much lesser amplitude, impacted the aerosol burden in the lower stratosphere over periods of months (Vernier et al., 2011). These moderate eruptions have occurred in a period of still high chlorine loading with a potential impact on stratospheric ozone chemistry. Their effects depend on the amount of released SO2 and on latitudes and altitudes of injection which directly inuence aerosol residence times. The season of the eruption is also important for photochemical processes which are directly connected to temperatures and solar illumination.
The goal of this paper is to show how such moderate eruptions are likely to modify the chemical balance of the Northern Hemisphere lower stratosphere at periods excluding wintertime or springtime halogen-activating photochemistry. We specically focus on the eruption of the Sarychev volcano on 15 and 16 June 2009, which injected 0.9 Tg of sulfur dioxide into the lower stratosphere (Clarisse et al., 2012), resulting in enhanced sulfate aerosol loading up to 19 km, for a period of
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gust 2009 (called SPIRALE-24082009 below), the measurements started at 21:00 UT (23:00 local time) at an altitude of 14 km and the maximum altitude of 34 km was reached at 22:30 UT (00:30 local time). The measurement position remained rather constant during the ascent with a displacement of the balloon from 67.91 N21.09 E to 67.86 N
20.94 E. The data used in this study are averaged over a vertical range of 250 m (corresponding to 1 min of mea
surements).
2.1.2 Remote-sensing observations
Since 1996 stratospheric NO2 and BrO have been measured by solar occultation by the DOAS (differential optical absorption spectroscopy) balloon-borne instrument using the DOAS technique (e.g. Platt, 1994; Stutz and Platt, 1996; Ferlemann et al., 2000). The details of the vertical prole retrieval can be found in Butz et al. (2006) for NO2 and in
Harder et al. (1998), Aliwell et al. (2002), Dorf et al. (2006b) and Kreycy et al. (2013) for BrO. In our study we use the DOAS prole recorded in the stratosphere during the balloon ascent on 7 September 2009 between 15:15 UT (17:15 local time) and 16:35 UT (18:35 local time), corresponding to altitudes of 10 and 30 km respectively.
The SALOMON (Spectroscopie dAbsorption Lunaire pour lObservation des Minoritaires Ozone et NOx) balloon-borne UVvisible spectrometer also uses the DOAS method to derive the mixing ratio prole of NO2 (Renard et al., 2000;
Berthet et al., 2002). SALOMON was initially based on the lunar occultation technique, but on 25 August 2009, we ew a new version also able to use the Sun as a direct light source to derive BrO amounts. The proles used in this study were obtained on 25 August 2009 during solar occultation between 18:50 UT (20:50 local time) and 19:30 UT (21:30 local time).The oat altitude was 33 km, and the position of the tangent point varied from 71.0 N13.3 E to 71.4 N12.6 E for altitudes below 19 km, which are the main focus of our study as a result of the presence of the volcanic aerosols.
Variations in solar zenith angle (SZA) along solar occultation lines of sight and associated concentration variations are likely to impact the retrieved vertical proles near sunrise and sunset especially below 20 km (Newchurch et al., 1996;Ferlemann et al., 1998). Some works propose using a photo-chemical model to correct for this effect (e.g. Harder et al., 2000; Butz et al., 2006) depending on the considered chemical compound, the observation geometry (i.e. balloon ascent or occultation) and daytime (SZA variation). Typically, concentrations are converted to values expected at 90 SZA.
In our study, the NO2 prole from the SALOMON instrument recorded on 25 August 2009 from a typical solar occultation at constant oat altitude is not photochemically corrected since conversion to 90 SZA conditions results in differences of less than 6 %, in agreement with the work of Payan et al. (1999). The NO2 vertical prole observed by the
DOAS instrument was recorded on 7 September 2009 with
a different observation geometry, i.e. during the balloon ascent. In this case applying a photochemical correction gives differences of 24 % and the modelmeasurement comparison is done for SZA = 90 .
Photochemical effects on the BrO prole obtained by the SALOMON instrument from solar occultation measurements are estimated to be 10 % and are taken into account in the error estimation in accordance with the study of Ferle-mann et al. (1998). Photochemical changes in the BrO slant column densities (SCDs) recorded during the balloon ascent are small, and the DOAS BrO prole has not been corrected to 90 SZA (Ferlemann et al., 1998; Harder et al., 2000; Dorf et al., 2006b).
2.2 Model calculations
The REPROBUS (Reactive Processes Ruling the Ozone Budget in the Stratosphere) 3-D CTM has been used in a number of studies of stratospheric chemistry involving nitrogen and halogen compounds in particular through comparisons with space-borne and balloon-borne observations (e.g.Krecl et al., 2006; Berthet et al., 2005; Brohede et al., 2007).It is designed to perform annual simulations as well as detailed process studies. A description of the model is given in Lefvre et al. (1994) and Lefvre et al. (1998), as well as in the Appendix.
In this study, REPROBUS was integrated from 1 October 2008 to 1 October 2009 with a horizontal resolution of 2 latitude by 2 longitude. The ozone eld was initialized on 1 April 2009 from the ECMWF ozone analysis. Following the work of Legras et al. (2005), REPROBUS has been driven by 3-hourly ECMWF wind elds obtained by interleaving operational analysis and forecasts. Using these more time-resolved and less noisy ECMWF wind elds reduced the ascent velocities of the upward branch of the BrewerDobson circulation in the tropics and largely reduced the modelmeasurement discrepancies by increasing the simulated global NOy and NOx amounts from increased N2O photo-oxidation (Berthet et al., 2006). In this conguration, the summer 2009 REPROBUS simulations are in agreement with the SPIRALE in situ observations (Fig. 1a).
As sulfur chemistry is not included in REPROBUS, we have conducted a simulation (hereafter called Ref-sim) constrained with typical background aerosol levels inferred from H2SO4 mixing ratios provided by the UPMC (Universit
Pierre et Marie Curie) 2-D model (Bekki and Pyle, 1994) and used as a reference, i.e. without volcanic aerosols. A simulation (hereafter called Sat-sim) has been set up by prescribing time-dependent variations in the stratospheric sulfate aerosol content from 1 km vertical resolution extinction measurements by the Optical Spectrograph and Infrared Imaging System (OSIRIS) instrument onboard the Odin satellite.OSIRIS aerosol extinction data used in this study are the validated version 5 retrieved at 750 nm (Bourassa et al., 2012).They compare well with the proles inferred from the STAC
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Figure 1. (a) Vertical prole of N2O recorded on 7 August 2009 (black line) compared to the results from the 3-D version of REPROBUS (dotted line). (b) Vertical prole of NOy inferred from the SPIRALE N2O prole converted using the N2ONOy correlation curve presented in Fig. 7 (referred to as NO y). Also shown are the NOy proles from the 3-D version of REPROBUS (dotted line) and the MIPAS averaged data (green line). The 1-D version of REPROBUS is computed with the proles interpolated to the model resolution (blue lines).
balloon-borne aerosol counter (Jgou et al., 2013), thus providing condence in the use of the data as a basis for considering time-dependent changes in aerosol content. OSIRIS data were averaged daily and zonally over 10 latitude bins.
A standard Mie scattering model (Van de Hulst, 1957; Wiscombe, 1980; Steele and Turco, 1997) has been run to convert extinction values to H2SO4 mixing ratios from parameters of log-normal unimodal size distributions provided by the STAC instrument and used in the work of Jgou et al. (2013) in the Sarychev aerosol conditions. The derived H2SO4 mixing ratios have then been incorporated into the model over the period of the presence of the Sarychev aerosols in the Northern Hemisphere lower stratosphere, i.e. from the beginning of July 2009 onwards. The simulation has been conducted until October 2009 because OSIRIS data at high latitudes are lacking beyond this period due to decreasing solar illumination.
We have conducted another type of simulation (hereafter called Bal-sim) consisting in adjusting the input H2SO4 mixing ratios so that the model output matches SADs observed by the STAC aerosol counter. Although similar aerosol SAD values were observed by Kravitz et al. (2011) in November 2009, i.e. 2 months after the STAC measurements as men
tioned by Jgou et al. (2013), a single vertical prole may be not representative of the geographical distribution of the still unmixed volcanic plume throughout summer 2009. To account for the range of aerosol variability as observed by STAC over the Arctic region for the AugustSeptember period (Fig. 2), we have performed two simulations based on the spread (1 standard deviation) of observed SADs. We have excluded data suspected to be spoilt by balloon out-
gassing as deduced from joint water vapour measurements.
Also, ights revealing the sporadic presence of clouds are not considered to derive the range of SADs below 12 km. Each Bal-sim simulation is driven by the lower and the upper bound of observed SAD values below 20 km (Fig. 2) from the beginning of August until the end of the model run for latitudes above 40 N. Note that in Bal-sim, H2SO4 mixing ratios in July are taken from the Sat-sim simulation.
3 Impact of the volcanic aerosols on stratospheric nitrogen compounds: comparisons between balloon-borne observations and model simulations
3.1 Photochemical conditions
N2O5 is produced mainly at night from the recombination of
NO2 with NO3 and destroyed during the day by photolysis leading to the reformation of NO2. Polar summer is characterized by continuous solar illumination preventing the formation of N2O5 (Fahey and Ravishankara, 1999) until about the beginning of August (Brhl et al., 1998), i.e. around day 213 for the considered Esrange/Kiruna location as illustrated in Fig. 3 at 17.5 km. When NO3 reforms at this time, signi-cant conversion of NO2 to N2O5 occurs during the night. The associated decrease in NOx is reected in Fig. 3. The conversion of N2O5 to HNO3 through Reaction (R1) occurs almost exclusively at night. As the season progresses, the increase in the conversion rate caused by the increase in night duration is moderated by the decrease in NO2 amounts at the beginning of the night.
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Figure 2. Range of aerosol SAD values (black lines) as derived from several balloon-borne observations in the lower stratosphere in summer 2009 (1 standard deviation of the mean). The individual proles (grey lines) and their average (white dashed line) are also presented. Data supposed to be spoilt by balloon outgassing as revealed from simultaneous in situ water vapour observations and data revealing the sporadic presence of clouds below 12 km have been excluded.
As expected, increasing SAD values in the model to reproduce the volcanic aerosol levels has no effect on N2O5 (and on the production of HNO3) and on NOx during the period of continuous solar illumination. However, from the onset of N2O5 recovery, a signicant decrease in the N2O5 and NOx levels in comparison with the background aerosol simulation is calculated as the lifetime of N2O5 in Reaction (R1) is reduced (e.g. Kinnison et al., 1994) and as further nitrogen oxides are converted to the more stable HNO3 reservoir.
This situation implies that the balloon ights performed from 7 August 2009 in the Kiruna region match the photo-chemical conditions for which volcanic aerosols likely have an impact on NOy partitioning via elevated N2O5 hydrolysis and can be suitably used to investigate heterogeneous processes.
3.2 NO2
3.2.1 Model comparisons with observations
For the Sarychev situation, minima in NO2 concentrations appear closely correlated with enhancements in aerosol amounts in the lower stratosphere (Fig. 4). Thus the empirical evidence supports the view that NOx chemistry is largely driven by heterogeneous processes even in the case of a moderate volcanic eruption. The vertical structures depicted in Fig. 4 conrm that the plume is not homogeneously mixed over the Arctic region 2 months after the eruption.
Minimum concentration values of 1 to 2 particles cm3 (for sizes > 0.4 m) correspond to unperturbed background extra-
Figure 3. Seasonal variation in N2O5 (a) and in the NOx / NOy ratio (b) simulated by the REPROBUS CTM above Kiruna in northern Sweden (67.5 N, 21.0 E) around 17.5 km. The simulation driven by non-volcanic aerosol contents (Ref-sim) is shown in blue.
The black dotted line is the REPROBUS simulation driven by volcanic aerosol levels from STAC balloon-borne observations (Balsim). Red triangles represent the dates of the balloon ights. N2O5 recovery onset is at the beginning of August (day 213 is 1 August 2009), i.e. when SZA become > 90 .
vortex conditions (Renard et al., 2010) and therefore indicate air masses unaffected by the volcanic aerosols. Conversely, layers with aerosol concentration increases by more than a factor of 3 (with respect to the mean proles) can be assigned to the presence of the volcanic plume and show associated reductions in NO2 by up to a factor of 2.
Figures 5 and 6 present the measured proles of NO2 obtained by the SPIRALE, SALOMON and DOAS instruments, together with REPROBUS model outputs for altitudes below 20 km where the Sarychev aerosols were present. In contrast to the reference simulations, the Bal-sim simulations constrained by the range of aerosol SADs observed by STAC show signicant improvement in comparison with the non-volcanic calculations with, for instance, average differences of 3 20 % for SPIRALE-07082009. Results from the
Sat-sim simulations driven by OSIRIS satellite data are very close to the Bal-sim results and are only shown for the SPIRALE ights.
It may be noted that the REPROBUS calculations do not reproduce some of the vertical structures detected by the SPIRALE instrument, i.e. between 17.5 and 19.5 km for SPIRALE-07082009 and at 17 and 20.5 km for SPIRALE-24082009. This is likely due to the vertical resolution of the model or inaccurate simulation of mixing effects in the CTM
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Figure 4. Vertical proles of NO2 observed by the SPIRALE balloon-borne instrument (black line with grey shaded error bars)
on 7 August 2009 (a) and 24 August 2009 (b) compared to the total aerosol concentration proles (for sizes > 0.4 m) simultaneously recorded by the STAC aerosol counter (blue line) above Kiruna during the balloon ascent. SPIRALE data have been averaged over 250 m (corresponding to 1 min of measurements).
as already mentioned in previous studies showing this kind of comparison (e.g. Berthet et al., 2006).
Calculated differences between the reference and the volcanic-aerosol-constrained simulations provide an estimation of the chemical perturbation induced by the Sarychev aerosols. Reductions in NO2 mixing ratios between 34 and 50 % are simulated on average below 19 km. For a stratosphere affected by the Pinatubo aerosols, decreases ranging from 30 to 45 % have been reported both in model calculations of NO2 concentrations (Kinnison et al., 1994; Webster et al., 1994) and in the NO2 columns (Johnston et al., 1992; Koike et al., 1993, 1994; Solomon et al., 1994). At a glance, the amplitude in the NO2 reduction is therefore similar for both eruptions, but it should be noted that results from these above-mentioned studies were provided for different latitudes, various seasons and correspond to wider altitude ranges as a result of the larger vertical extent of the Pinatubo aerosol cloud.
3.2.2 One-dimensional model calculations
Some small modelmeasurement discrepancies in the 20 35 km altitude range as shown in the embedded plots in Figs. 5 and 6 suggest that the modelmeasurement differences in the lower stratosphere may be only partly attributed to remaining uncertainties in calculations of transport. A way
to discard a possible remaining effect of transport and improve the modelling of total NOy is to use one-dimensional (1-D) calculations constrained by observations (Dufour et al., 2005; Berthet et al., 2006).
Total NOy from SPIRALE measurements can be derived from established N2ONOy correlation curves. Since the study of Michelsen et al. (1998), global emissions of N2O have increased and the N2ONOy correlations reported therein need some revision. As a consequence, we have constructed updated correlation curves from the Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research/Instituto de Astrofsica de Andaluca (IMK/IAA) V5R_220 MIPAS-Envisat data for the high latitude in summer stratosphere (Fischer et al., 2008; data available at http://www.imk-asf.kit.edu/english/308.php
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Web End =308.php ) as shown in Fig. 7 in which the Michelsen et al.s (1998) previous results are also represented for comparison. An example of the estimated vertical prole of NOy (hereafter NO y) derived from the conversion of the SPI
RALE N2O prole (Fig. 1a) using the N2O / NOy ratios derived from MIPAS data is presented in Fig. 1b. Then, following the strategy of Berthet et al. (2006) the N2O and the derived NO y proles for SPIRALE-07082009 and SPIRALE-24082009 are used to initialize the REPROBUS 1-D version.
The 1-D-REPROBUS reference simulation is computed with background aerosol levels, whereas the Sarychev aerosol-affected simulation is constrained with the mean ob-served aerosol prole presented in Fig. 2. As a result of the NO y input in the calculations, the 1-D reference simulations show very good agreement for NO2 (in red in Fig. 5) with the SPIRALE measurements above 20 km. The 1-D simulations constrained by observed volcanic aerosol quantities (in yellow in Fig. 5) match well with the in situ measurements. The calculated chemical impact on NO2 clearly gives percentage values similar to the 3-D simulation results because both NO y and 3-D NOy proles agree well in the lower stratosphere (Fig. 1b). We note that ne structures in the measured prole are not reproduced by the 1-D model as a matter of height resolution and interpolation (Berthet et al., 2006).
Overall the 1-D NOy-constrained simulations do not signicantly improve the comparisons. This result conrms that the modelobservation differences in the lower stratosphere can be mostly attributed to heterogeneous processes and not to spurious calculations of transport.
3.2.3 Saturation effect of NOx reduction
The reduction of NOx from the results described above (Sect. 3.2.1) is signicant but also indicates some saturation through Reaction (R1) for the range of SADs observed for the Sarychev aerosols. The partitioning between NOx and NOy is expected to become insensitive to increases in aerosol SAD beyond a certain value when N2O5 hydrolysis is the dominant sink for NOx because the night-time formation of N2O5 by reaction of NO2 and NO3 is quadratically dependent on NOx. This effect is reected in Fig. 8
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by 1013 % when including volcanic aerosols below 19 km, highlighting limited effects on HNO3.
The NO2 / HNO3 ratio can be used as a good approximation of the NOx / NOy ratio to reduce the uncertainty in a model estimate of NOy (e.g. Webster et al., 1994; Berthet et al., 2006). This is especially useful for the SPIRALE ights for which modelled NO2 and HNO3 amounts account for more than 92 % of total NOy. Good agreement is obtained between the observed NO2 / HNO3 ratio and the model outputs by including the Sarychev aerosols, with, for instance, absolute differences decreasing to 3 20 % for the Bal-sim
simulation for SPIRALE-07082009 (Fig. 9). However, no clear improvement is noticed with respect to the model measurement comparisons presented in Fig. 5 for NO2 both at and above the altitudes of the plume. One-dimensional calculations do not show improvement either (not shown). Again this indicates that transport calculation is not a major issue in the comparisons. Reductions in the NO2 / HNO3 ratios between 36 and 44 % are simulated on average below
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Figure 5. Vertical prole of NO2 observed by the SPIRALE balloon-borne instrument (black line) above Kiruna during the balloon ascent between 02:00 and 02:30 UT ( 87 SZA at 02:15 UT) for the 7 August 2009 ight (top) and between 21:00 and 21:30 UT ( 100 SZA
at 21:15 UT) for the 24 August 2009 ight (bottom). Model outputs (available every 15 min) are provided for the closest location of the instrument and interpolated to the time of observations. Three-dimensional simulations were driven without volcanic aerosols (green), with volcanic aerosols from balloon-borne observations (blue shaded area) and with volcanic aerosols from satellite data (dark blue line). Results from a one-dimensional (1-D) version of the REPROBUS model (dashed lines) computed using hybrid NOy proles (NO y) derived from the observed proles of N2O are also provided (see text), with the non-volcanic reference simulations in red and the calculations driven with volcanic aerosols from the mean observed balloon-borne prole presented in Fig. 2 in yellow.
presenting the NO2SAD curve constructed for the range of altitudes spanned by the volcanic plume (i.e. with different NOy amounts and photochemistry). Although the asymptotic behaviour in the NO2 reduction would be more evident if shown for a given altitude level with constant SZA and varying SADs, our results indicate saturation for SAD values larger than about 4 m1 cm3, which is reached on average for altitudes around 18 km. The net reduction of NOx reported for the Pinatubo aerosols tends to saturate at similar SADs in the 1822 km range, as shown in the works of Fahey et al. (1993), Kondo et al. (1997) and Sen et al. (1998).
3.3 HNO3 and NO2 / HNO3 ratio
We consider here total HNO3, i.e. both in the gas phase and condensed. All the REPROBUS-simulated proles for HNO3 are mostly within the errors bars of the SPIRALE measurements and only differ by less than 10 % on average (not shown). Calculated amounts from Bal-sim are increased
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Figure 6. Top: vertical prole of NO2 recorded by the SALOMON instrument (black lines) obtained during solar occultation between 18:50 (32 km tangent height) and 19:30 UT (15 km tangent height) on 25 August 2009 above Kiruna. Chemistry-transport model simulations computed with no volcanic aerosols (green line), with volcanic aerosols from balloon-borne observations (blue shaded area) and with volcanic aerosols from satellite data (dark blue line) are shown. The model output is provided for the closest location of the tangent points. Bottom: vertical prole of NO2 recorded by the DOAS instrument (black lines) on 7 September 2009 above Kiruna. The DOAS prole was recorded during the balloon ascent and has been converted to 90 SZA ( 17:30 UT) as well as the simulated prole.
19 km for SPIRALE-07082009 and SPIRALE-24082009 respectively when volcanic aerosols are included.
For the Pinatubo-aerosol-loaded stratosphere, maximum
HNO3 column increases of 3040 % have been measured at midlatitudes (e.g. Koike et al., 1994). Reductions ranging from 20 to 45 % have been reported both in the ob-served NO2 / HNO3 column ratios (Koike et al., 1994) and in model calculations (Webster et al., 1994). However, quantifying the difference between both eruptions through comparisons of local concentrations versus columns remains challenging because the production efciency of HNO3 by heterogeneous processes generally depends on the altitude level where volcanic aerosols are present (Webster et al., 1994; Danilin et al., 1999). In particular, the observed signature of the Pinatubo-induced HNO3 enhancement was not limited to the lower stratosphere and prevailed above the 420465 K ( 1618 km) vertical range (Webster et al., 1994; Santee et
al., 2004).
4 Impact of the volcanic aerosols on the coupled catalytic cycles involving halogen, nitrogen and HOx compounds
4.1 Chlorine partitioning
Several studies have revealed the impact of the Pinatubo eruption on the stratospheric halogen chemistry. This has been shown to be of particular importance regarding ozone destruction processes through the partitioning of chlorine reservoir species and the activation of chlorine radicals on volcanic aerosols (e.g. Solomon, 1999, and references therein).
Some volcanic eruptions are likely to inject halogenated compounds within the stratosphere, therefore impacting directly the halogen content and bypassing (or adding to) in situ heterogeneous processes. For the Sarychev volcano eruption, an injection of several ppbv of HCl into the stratosphere has been reported by Carn et al. (2016) using Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) data, mainly below the 140 hPa level (see their Fig. 4). However, because of the low vertical resolution
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Figure 7. N2ONOy correlation curve inferred from IMK/IAA V5R_220 MIPAS-Envisat data at high latitudes (> 60 N) in July
August 2009 (full line). Error bars reect the spread of the data. The former Michelsen et al. (1998) correlation is also shown for comparison (dashed line).
of MLS data, i.e. 3 km, the exact altitude of injection is
unclear and requires further investigation. In addition, MLS HCl measurements are known to be biased high below the 100 hPa level (Livesey et al., 2011), making it difcult to infer a robust injection amount. As a consequence, the possible effect of the HCl injection on the stratospheric chlorine chemistry is not investigated in our study.
We therefore examine the direct impact of the Sarychev sulfate aerosols on the chlorine partitioning in connection with NOx and HOx in the lower stratosphere. Heterogeneous reactions on volcanic aerosols involving the ClONO2 and
HCl chlorine reservoirs (especially Reaction R2) have been shown to play a major role in determining the abundance of active chlorine and therefore they are likely to compete with Reaction (R1) as a sink of NOx depending on ambient temperature values (e.g. Hanson et al., 1994). Signicant decreases in HCl and corresponding increases in ClONO2 have been reported for temperatures below 210 K in the lower stratosphere, with a strong temperature sensitivity when volcanic aerosol amounts are large (Michelsen et al., 1999; Webster et al., 1998, 2000). Table 1 presents the calculated effects of the Sarychev aerosols on the partitioning of the halogen species at 16.5 km. Simulated levels of HCl decrease by 3 % ( 20 pptv), which is much smaller than the change observed
by Webster et al. (2000) for the Pinatubo aerosols (about
31 % at 21 km). Higher levels of ClONO2 are simulated post the Sarychev eruption with respect to background conditions with increases of about 16 % ( 20 pptv). ClO and
HOCl increase by 106 % ( 6 pptv) and 217 % ( 2 pptv) re
spectively during the daytime. It is interesting to note that these results for ClO are comparable to the calculations of Tie et al. (1994), who show ClO increases by at least 5 pptv
Figure 8. NO2 mixing ratio as a function of aerosol SAD as simultaneously observed in the lower stratosphere by the SPIRALE and
STAC instruments on 24 August 2009 (black curve). The result of the REPROBUS Bal-sim simulation is also plotted (blue curve).
in the lower stratosphere for summer 1992 at a time when Pinatubo-related aerosol SADs were similar to August 2009 values.
The impact of the volcanic aerosols on the chlorine partitioning appears somewhat small since it is primarily the consequence of the increasing losses of HCl by enhanced OH through reaction HCl + OH ! Cl + H2O (McElroy et
al., 1992; Webster et al., 2000) rather than by Reaction (R2), for which the efciency is low in the 215225 K range
of temperatures mostly encountered in the lower stratosphere over the AugustSeptember 2009 period (see Fig. 9 in Jgou et al., 2013). In fact, in the model HOx is increased by 51 % ( 1.4 pptv) (Table 1), and destruction
of HCl by OH is faster than the HCl formation reaction Cl + CH4 ! HCl + CH3. An additional source of OH is due
to the photolysis of HNO3 (Rodriguez et al., 1991; Webster et al., 2000). Also, the decreased reaction rate of reaction NO2 + OH + M ! HNO3+ M in reduced NOx condi
tions (Kinnison et al., 1994) may increase OH. As also described by Bekki and Pyle (1994), subsequent production of reactive chlorine and increase in ClO is accompanied by an increase in ClONO2 amounts through an increased rate of reaction ClO + NO2+ M ! ClONO2+ M, for which ClO
is the limiting reactant. To a lesser extent, a decreased rate of Reaction (R3) for the observed temperature range contributes to this increase. Overall, the ClONO2 increase compensates for the HCl decrease in Reaction (R3) (Kinnison et al., 1994; Michelsen et al., 1999; Webster et al., 2000). HOCl amounts rise as a result of slightly enhanced ClONO2 hydrolysis and production by enhanced HOx through reaction HO2+ ClO ! HOCl + O2.
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Table 1. Simulated changes on various stratospheric key species due to the Sarychev volcanic aerosols over the AugustSeptember 2009 period at 16.5 km. Numbers are taken from the Sat-sim simulation. Effects for daytime and night-time conditions are provided depending on statistically signicant amounts in the diurnal cycle of a given compound. Also, the contribution of BrONO2 hydrolysis (Reaction R4) to changes on the various species is shown (see text).
Species All chemistry BrONO2 hydrolysis effect
12:00 UT 00:00 UT 12:00 UT 00:00 UT
NOx 0.23 ppbv 44 % 0.19 ppbv 48 % 1.8 % 1.1 %
NO2 0.12 ppbv 43 % 0.19 ppbv 48 % 1.8 % 1.1 %
NO 0.11 ppbv 45 % 2.0 %
HNO3 +0.31 ppbv +11 % +0.31 ppbv +11 % 2.3 % 0.9 %
N2O5 0.08 ppbv 80 % 0.12 ppbv 66 % 3.6 % 3.1 %
ClONO2 +0.02 ppbv +16 % +0.02 ppbv +22 % 66.2 % 60.6 %
HCl 0.02 ppbv 3 % 0.02 ppbv 3 % 58.8 % 58.9 %
ClOx +5.77 pptv +106 % 39.3 %
ClO +5.77 pptv +106 % 39.3 %
HOCl +2.17 pptv +217 % +1.16 pptv +346 % 47.4 % 50.1 %
BrONO2 1.37 pptv 33 % 4.15 pptv 70 % 18.3 % 98 %
BrO +0.94 pptv +22 % 16.2 %
HOBr +3.89 pptv +141 % 98.8 %
HOx +1.41 pptv +51 % 24.1 %
OH +0.05 pptv +16 % 44.1 %
HO2 +1.36 pptv +56 % 23.1 %
O3 13.1 ppbv 1.1 % 12.6 ppbv 1.1 % 22.5 % 26.3 %
4.2 Bromine compounds
4.2.1 Effect on BrO
Coupling between chlorine and bromine compounds is of particular importance in the lower stratosphere (e.g. Lary et al., 1996; Erle et al., 1998; Salawitch et al., 2005). Heterogeneous bromine reactions are expected to increase the coupled gas-phase ClO / BrO catalytic ozone destruction cycles. Because BrONO2 hydrolysis (Reaction R4) is not temperature dependent, its effects on the chemistry of the lower stratosphere are primarily dependent on the aerosol loading and not on latitude or SZA (Lary et al., 1996; Kondo et al., 1997;Erle et al., 1998).
Since direct injection of bromine into the stratosphere was insignicant after the Sarychev eruption (Hrmann et al., 2013), we expect that stratospheric bromine chemistry was only modied by the enhanced aerosol loading. BrO was the only key halogenated radical detected during the summer 2009 balloon campaign. Vertical proles were provided by the SALOMON and DOAS instruments on 25 August 2009 and 7 September 2009 respectively (Fig. 10). They were simultaneously measured with the NO2 proles presented in
Sect. 3.2. Differences between both proles in terms of BrO amounts are mainly due to differences in SZA. When volcanic aerosol SADs are included, BrO amounts are increased in the lower stratosphere, matching the observations within the error bars (Fig. 10).
Simulated results related to the bromine chemistry at16.5 km are presented in Table 1 for the AugustSeptember 2009 period. During the daytime, part of the BrO enhancement is linked to the decreased loss by the three-body reaction with decreased NO2. The other part is expected to be controlled by BrONO2 hydrolysis, which is by far the most efcient bromine heterogeneous reaction in the temperature range observed in our study (Hanson and Ravishankara, 1995; Hanson et al., 1996). Under high aerosol loading the rate of the BrONO2 hydrolysis is likely to compete with the BrONO2 photolysis and with other gas-phase reactions which normally control the bromine partitioning during the daytime (Lary et al., 1996). Here, note that the conclusion of Kreycy et al. (2013) regarding a possibly larger ratio of the photolysis and the three-body formation reaction for BrONO2 (J (BrONO2) / kBrO + NO2) than compiled by
Sander et al. (2011) is not affected by the presence of the Sarychev aerosols in the lower stratosphere since they have addressed observations with SZA < 92.5 at 31 km (i.e. tangent heights > 24 km). After sunset BrONO2 production is ceasing and its enhanced hydrolysis on volcanic aerosols leads to strongly increased formation of HOBr (+3.9 pptv or +141 %) at an early stage of the night so that little BrONO2 remains before dawn. This conversion at night-time results in further release of OH and Br atoms in the morning through photolysis of HOBr.
However, it is not clear if BrONO2 hydrolysis is mainly responsible for the increase in BrO within the lowermost stratosphere. Dedicated simulations to estimate the respec-
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increase in OH radical amounts from the subsequent photolysis of HOBr at dawn. Therefore, under volcanic conditions, enhanced BrONO2 hydrolysis nearly matches the contribution of nitrogen chemistry (see Sect. 4.1) as a source of OH (e.g. Hanisco et al., 2001).
This additional release of OH radicals has signicant consequences in the chemistry of the lower stratosphere. In our study the reduction in NOx from BrONO2 hydrolysis is small (less than 2 %) as are the overall effects on nitrogen partitioning, conrming the conclusions of Lary et al. (1996) and Kondo et al. (1997). In contrast, there is substantial repartitioning of the active chlorine family species. The catalytic increase in OH due to the hydrolysis of BrONO2 leads to a reduction in the HCl lifetime, which is primarily dependent on the aerosol loading (Tie and Brasseur, 1996). The OH that is produced additionally converts remaining HCl to ClO and, ultimately, to ClONO2. As shown in Table 1,
60 % of the HCl decrease, 39 % of the ClO increase and 66 % of the ClONO2 increase is due to Reaction (R4) under the Sarychev aerosol loading, thus illustrating a signicant enhancement of the coupling between the stratospheric chlorine and bromine photochemistry.
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Figure 9. Same as Fig. 5 but for the NO2 / HNO3 ratio observed by the SPIRALE instrument. Provided are the three-dimensional simulations driven without volcanic aerosols (green), with volcanic aerosols from balloon-borne observations (blue shaded area) and with volcanic aerosols from satellite data (dark blue line).
tive contribution of gas-phase chemistry and heterogeneous processes to the control of BrO production under volcanic conditions have thus been performed. The effects of the Sarychev aerosols on each chemical compound are calculated by switching off Reaction (R4) and compared in terms of percentage differences, with the simulations including all chemistry. Results are summarized in Table 1. It particularly shows that under the Sarychev aerosol loading, only 16 % of the 22 % (0.9 pptv) increase in daytime BrO at 16.5 km for the AugustSeptember 2009 period is produced from BrONO2 hydrolysis. This result implies that bromine chemistry in the gas phase coupled to processes controlling the NOy partitioning mainly govern BrO amounts (e.g. Lary et al., 1996).
4.2.2 Role of BrONO2 hydrolysis on other compounds
As shown in Table 1 for an altitude of 16.5 km, at night
BrONO2 amounts are mainly affected by Reaction (R4), which controls 98 % of its decrease under volcanic aerosol inuence. Nearly 100 % of the night-time HOBr production is due to BrONO2 hydrolysis, which accounts for 44 % of the
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Figure 10. Same as Fig. 6 but for BrO. The SALOMON data in the lower stratosphere were obtained between 19:15 UT (SZA = 93.8
at 22 km tangent height) and 19:25 UT (SZA = 94.5 at 17 km tangent height). The DOAS prole was measured between 15:15 UT
(SZA = 77.5 at 10 km) and 15:55 UT (SZA = 81.3 at 22 km) during the balloon ascent.
5 Stratospheric ozone
5.1 Chemical ozone change
It is interesting to estimate the stratospheric ozone depletion induced by the Sarychev eruption. As said above, the model does not directly calculate possible effects of aerosols on stratospheric temperature and circulation. All our simulations use the same transport calculations, whereas ozone loss from Pinatubo in the northern midlatitudes can be both attributed to chemical and transport (such as increased tropical upwelling) effects (e.g. Telford et al., 2009; Dhomse et al., 2015). In the following, we therefore solely calculate the change in ozone due to photochemistry.
We then compare model simulations with enhanced and background aerosol levels (Fig. 11). Results indicate chemical reductions in ozone of a few percent following the eruption when aerosol levels are computed from the OSIRIS space-borne data. Accumulated ozone depletion reaches its maximum above Kiruna near 16 km from around mid-September with changes of 22 ppbv corresponding to 1.5 %. Below this level, changes range from 10 to 18 ppbv, i.e. 2.5 to 3.5 %. From the upper bound
of the Bal-sim outputs, calculated ozone depletion reaches
25 ppbv (2.8 %) and 35 ppbv (4 %) at 16.5 and 14 km
respectively (not shown).
We note that for the post-Pinatubo eruption period, ozone reductions as large as 30 % were measured for the 12 and
22 km altitude range monitored at some midlatitude locations in winter and spring (Hofmann et al., 1994), but these losses are both due to dynamical and chemical perturbations. Through 2-D modelling, ozone losses of up to 20 % di
rectly resulting from heterogeneous chemical processes were calculated in the Northern Hemisphere lower stratosphere over the rst year following the Pinatubo eruption (Pitari and Rizi, 1993; Tie et al., 1994). The calculated chemical loss had reduced to values much closer to those simulated for the Sarychev aerosols, i.e. 5 %, at 60 N in the autumn 1992
extra-polar vortex conditions (Tie et al., 1994).
5.2 Chemical mechanisms for the ozone change in the lower stratosphere
In the lower stratosphere, ozone removal rates are mainly controlled by the HOx and halogen catalytic cycles which have been found to typically account for 3050 % and 30 % of the total ozone loss respectively in non-volcanic conditions (Portmann et al., 1999; Salawitch et al., 2005). The
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Figure 11. Changes in ozone over Kiruna (67.5 N, 21.0 E) as a function of altitude and time between 1 July and 1 October 2009.
Calculations are done by subtracting outputs from the volcanic simulation driven by OSIRIS observations with the background simulation. The position of the tropopause is given by the black dotted line.
NOx cycles play a relatively minor role in the direct removal of ozone in the lower stratosphere, but, as a result of the coupling among the NOx, HOx and halogen cycles, the rate of ozone removal is still very sensitive to the concentration of NOx (Wennberg et al., 1994; Gao et al., 1999; Portmann et al., 1999; Salawitch et al., 2005). Through the reaction of HO2 with NO (HO2+ NO ! NO2+ OH), the de
creased NOx concentrations after the Sarychev eruption result in a larger HO2 / OH ratio (as shown in Table 1) than for background conditions (HO2 / OH ratios typically ranging from 4 to 7). Because the photochemical removal of ozone in the lower stratosphere is dominated by processes involving HO2, catalytic ozone destruction by HOx cycles is likely to be amplied after volcanic eruptions (Wennberg et al., 1994, 1995) though ozone loss rates are limited due to the saturation of the NOx / NOy response. After the eruption of Sarychev, the effectiveness of halogen cycles is enhanced due to increased ClOx resulting from an OH increase (Table 1) (as explained in Sect. 4.1). However, as said above, heterogeneous reactions activating chlorine are strongly and non-linearly dependent on temperature, implying slow rates in the average midlatitude temperature conditions (minimum values of 215 K) (Hanson et al., 1994; Webster et al., 1998; Michelsen et al., 1999). Under these conditions the simulated depletion in ozone is restrained similarly to the nding of Tie et al. (1994) for the post-Pinatubo eruption period.
Part of the ozone depletion can be related to the coupled BrOx / ClOx cycle, which is expected to be responsible for 2025 % of the halogen-controlled loss under non-volcanic aerosol conditions (Portmann et al., 1999; Salawitch et al.,
2005). Table 1 shows that the hydrolysis of BrONO2 accounts for more than 22 % of the ozone loss at 16.5 km after the Sarychev eruption. As described in Sect. 4.2.2, this is due to Reaction (R4) acting as a source of OH, reducing the HCl lifetime and thereby indirectly amplifying the chlorine-mediated ozone depletion. Because the sticking coefcient for hydrolysis of BrONO2 on sulfate aerosols is not temperature dependent, this effect occurs at all latitudes and seasons in the lower stratosphere during high aerosol loading periods (Lary et al., 1996; Tie and Brasseur, 1996).
6 Summary and conclusions
Our study provides key observations of the chemical perturbation in the lower stratosphere by the moderate Sarychev volcano eruption in June 2009. Three- and one-dimensional CTM simulations are performed to interpret balloon-borne observations of some key chemical species made in the summer high-latitude lower stratosphere. The modelled chemical response to the volcanic aerosols is treated by comparing simulations using background aerosol levels and simulations driven by volcanic aerosol amounts inferred from balloon-borne and space-borne observations.
Quantifying the impact of volcanic aerosols on stratospheric ozone chemistry is difcult as chemical and dynamical (radiative) effects occur simultaneously (Pitari and Rizi, 1993; Robock, 2000; Al-Saadi et al., 2001; Aquila et al., 2013). The model is a CTM driven by ECMWF ofine meteorological data and does not describe radiative processes.In other words, volcanic aerosol radiative effects do not directly interact with the circulation computed by the model.Radiative processes from the injection of volcanic aerosols into the tropics have been shown to have an impact on mean meridional circulation and ozone transport (Brasseur and Granier, 1992; Pitari et Rizi, 1993). In our study, effects of the Sarychev aerosols on midlatitude stratospheric dynamics, if any, are at least of the rst order intrinsically taken into account in the ECMWF analyses used for all simulations. REPROBUS does not take into account the aerosol impact on calculated photolysis rates, which is likely to result in some differences between models when this process is computed or ignored (Pitari and Rizi, 1993; Pitari et al., 2014). However, because the Sarychev eruption has only impacted the lower stratosphere at mid- and high latitudes the effect on the photolysis frequency of molecular oxygen and ozone due to absorption and backscattering of solar radiation by the volcanic aerosols is expected to be very small in these regions (Tie et al., 1994). Therefore, since all our simulations were driven with the same wind and temperature elds, our approach only estimates the chemical effects of the Sarychev aerosols.
The NOy chemistry appears to be very sensitive to the increase in SAD within the lower stratosphere resulting from the Sarychev eruption. A decrease in the NOx abundances is
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evident but shows some saturation as emphasized in a number of studies referring to cases of high sulfate aerosol loadings (e.g. Fahey et al., 1993). The effect of volcanic aerosols on nitrogen partitioning is also reected in the calculated production of HNO3 as a result of the decrease in the N2O5 nitrogen reservoir from its enhanced hydrolysis and NOx reduction.
Although direct comparisons in terms of solar illumination, latitude, injection altitudes and temperature are not possible for distinct volcanic eruptions such as Pinatubo and Sarychev, it is interesting to compare the effect of both eruptions on the photochemistry of the lower stratosphere.Overall, although different in magnitude, the eruptions of Pinatubo and Sarychev show a similar observed and simulated depletion of NO2, probably due to the saturation effect of the enhanced N2O5 hydrolysis. In comparison with the Pinatubo period, the Sarychev aerosols led to less overall HNO3 production in the stratosphere, possibly because the related HNO3 enhancement has been shown to be considerably weaker in the lowermost stratosphere (below 18 km)
than for sulfur injection into higher altitudes (Webster et al., 1994; Santee et al., 2004). However, one should note that previously reported modelling studies on the Pinatubo aerosols were conducted with previous chemical kinetic rate constants and photolysis rates which have mostly been updated since, which adds a degree of complexity to comparisons discussed within the present study.
For the Pinatubo aerosols, ozone destruction was not ob-served throughout the volcanic aerosol layer because N2O5 hydrolysis reduced NOx-related ozone loss, which even resulted in small increases in ozone in the middle stratosphere (Bekki and Pyle, 1994; Tie and Brasseur, 1995). For the Sarychev eruption, the volcanic aerosol layer is restrained to altitude levels below 19 km where the ozone destruction processes by HOx and halogen catalytic cycles are expected to play a major role (e.g. Salawitch et al., 2005), with some sensitivity towards NOx levels. To summarize, the increased production of HNO3 via N2O5 hydrolysis enhances the photolytic production of OH from HNO3. As a result, the gas-phase sink for HCl by reaction with OH is slightly enhanced and is associated with an increase in ClO amounts. An important result of the heterogeneous hydrolysis of BrONO2 is the formation and subsequent photolysis of additional HOBr. The OH so produced additionally converts HCl to ClO (and ultimately to ClONO2). Accordingly, there is substantial repartitioning of the active chlorine, but effects of the BrONO2 hydrolysis on nitrogen partitioning are insignicant. In this chemical context, the magnitude of the ozone response to the Sarychev volcanic perturbation appears restricted (for instance, 22 ppbv or 1.5 % around
16 km) because the saturation of the NOx / NOy response limits the increase in HOx and in active chlorine (ClO) by enhanced HOx, precluding important ozone loss rates.Moreover, stratospheric temperatures remained too high (i.e. mainly above 215 K) for efcient heterogeneous conversion
of ClONO2 to active chlorine, which could have led to signicant ozone depletion. For these temperature conditions, Reaction (R2) is not expected to compete with N2O5 hydrolysis in the NOy partitioning (Fahey et al., 1993; Cox et al., 1994).
However, limitations in our model simulations also contribute to some modelmeasurement discrepancies. A rst major difculty is to drive the model simulations with representative and consistent inputs in term of volcanic aerosol loading. To address this issue, two different model runs for aerosol forcing have been performed, one using OSIRIS satellite data converted to aerosol SAD elds and the other one from in situ balloon-borne observations. The OSIRIS satellite data represent zonally and daily averaged values of SAD, which may vary from a 3-D construction based on the local surface areas. The possible presence of aerosol streamers (geographical variations in the aerosol content) resulting from the transport of the volcanic aerosols over the Northern Hemisphere present from mid-July to September 2009 is likely to affect the N2O5 abundances locally and regionally and, to a lesser extent, NO2 and HNO3 (Jucks et al. 1999;Kll et al., 2002). If our aerosol SAD dataset had been obtained when the local concentrations were higher than the zonal mean values, then the calculated rate of the heterogeneous reactions would be biased low and calculated NOx and HNO3 abundances would be systematically biased high and low respectively. This is not, however, evident in all our comparisons from simulations based on OSIRIS aerosols. The second type of aerosol-constrained simulation uses SADs from balloon-borne observed proles. By denition, such in situ observations deal with a particular location. Extrapolating in situ derived SADs to drive a 3-D model on a large scale may induce inaccurate simulations of the chemical impact of the aerosols (Kondo et al., 2000). To account for this SAD-related uncertainty, our simulations based on in situ data encompass the range of SADs derived from the STAC balloon-borne observations over the AugustSeptember 2009 period.Both satellite- and balloon-driven simulations give similar results in terms of NO2 and HNO3 amounts, possibly because the in situ observations represent the aerosol loading at the northern midlatitudes well. Another explanation is that the saturation effect (roughly when SADs become larger than 3 m2 cm3) of the NOx / NOy ratio is more relevant for the range of observed SADs than spatiotemporal inhomogeneities.
Secondly, adequate modelling of transport is also crucial for the partitioning of NOy. Processes that control the vertical proles of NO2 and HNO3 in the stratosphere are based on a complex interplay between dynamics and chemistry with the key issue being to accurately simulate total NOy,
which may be not systematically achieved with 3-D CTM calculations. Improved simulations of transport can be obtained by combing operational analyses with forecasts to construct 3-hourly meteorological data to drive the CTM (Berthet et al., 2006). We have applied this strategy in the
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present study. Using 1-D modelling driven by in situ observations or calculating NO2 / HNO3 ratios to reduce transport effects does not clearly improve the modelmeasurement comparisons for the lower stratosphere. Although some features in the vertical proles are not systematically captured by the model, this tends to indicate that the error in calculated transport is not large enough to account for the overall difference between measured and modelled NO2 and HNO3 when no volcanic aerosol loading is included in the model.Rather, these results show some evidence of the role of heterogeneous reactions at the surface of volcanic aerosols.
Thirdly, part of the discrepancies between model and observations might be attributed to spatial resolution issues.It may be tricky to compare model calculations with high-resolution in situ proles and with remote-sensing observations integrating over tens of kilometres (Berthet et al., 2007). For instance, discrepancies between remote-sensing observations and model calculations have been reported for stratospheric NO3 in the case of localized temperature inhomogeneities as a result of the strong dependence of NO3 cross sections and kinetics on temperature (Renard et al., 2001). N2O5 and NO2 may be subsequently impacted because NO3, together with NO2, plays a central role in the equilibrium reaction controlling N2O5 in the gas phase.
In our study, no comprehensive sulfur chemistry is included in the model. We have also excluded dynamical and radiative effects on the ozone response, which have been shown to be of primary importance when dense volcanic clouds are present (e.g. Pitari and Rizi, 1993; Kinnison et al., 1994; Tie et al., 1994; Al-Saadi et al., 2001). In a forthcoming study it would be interesting to compare dynamical or radiative and chemical effects of moderate volcanic eruptions on stratospheric ozone using chemistryclimate models with full sulfur chemistry and aerosoldynamics interactive calculations.
Finally, it might be interesting to investigate the effects of other volcanic plumes coming from moderate volcanic eruptions which are then transported to high-latitude regions when stratospheric temperatures are more favourable for chlorine activation and enhanced ozone loss (e.g. in winter). The activation of chlorine from volcanic sulfate aerosols and associated ozone depletion is arguably more signicant in the cold temperature conditions of winter and spring, even above the formation threshold of polar stratospheric clouds (Hanson et al., 1994). The eruption of the Calbuco volcano in the Southern Hemisphere in April 2015 could be a good candidate for a study of this process (Solomon et al., 2016).
7 Data availability
Balloon data can be accessed on the ESPRI database (ESPRI data Centre, http://ether.ipsl.jussieu.fr/etherTypo/index.php?id=1538&L=1
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Appendix A: Technical description
A1 The STAC aerosol counter
Aerosol size distributions are provided in the 0.45 m diameter size range (Ovarlez and Ovarlez, 1995; Renard et al., 2008). Since 2008, the number of available size classes has been increased from 7 to 14 within this size range (Renard et al., 2010). The counting uncertainty is obtained from the statistical probability given by Poisson counting statistics (Willeke and Liu, 1976). This uncertainty, dened as the relative standard deviation, is 60 % for aerosol concentrations of 103 cm3, 20 % for 102 cm3 and 6 % for concentrations higher than 101 cm3. Laboratory comparisons between two copies of the STAC aerosol counter using identical aerosol samples have shown differences of 10 %
for concentrations higher than 102 cm3. From these results, we dene a measurement precision limited to 10 %.
It should be noted that comparisons with the aerosol concentrations measured by the University of Wyoming optical particle counter (Deshler et al., 2003) have shown consistent results between both instruments (Renard et al., 2002).STAC is calibrated in order to provide size distributions of non-absorbing liquid aerosols which have been unambiguously observed in the 819 km altitude range in the case of the Sarychev eruption (Jgou et al., 2013). Aerosol distribution moments are derived using well-known analytical expressions. Using a statistical approach as described in Deshler et al. (2003), STAC counting precision (Poisson statistics and the 10 % measurement reproducibility) translate into
uncertainties in distribution moments, with estimated values of 40 % for SAD. Proles are typically averaged over a vertical range of 250 m (corresponding to 1 min of measure
ments).
A2 The SPIRALE in situ infrared spectrometer
A detailed description of the instrumental characteristics of SPIRALE and of its operating mode can be found in Moreau et al. (2005). Six tunable laser diodes emitting in spectral micro-windows (< 1 cm1) in the mid-infrared domain (1250 to 3000 cm1) are used for in situ measurements of trace gas species from the upper troposphere to the stratosphere.The six laser beams are injected into a multipass Heriott cell, comprising two mirrors spaced 3.50 m apart by a telescopic mast, allowing for 434.0 m optical path. This cell is deployed under the gondola during the ight above 9 km altitude, i.e.
when pressure is below 300 hPa and thus absorption lines
are signicantly narrower than the scanned micro-windows.
Species concentrations are retrieved from direct absorption, by tting experimental spectra with spectra calculated using the HITRAN (high-resolution transmission molecular absorption database) 2012 database (Rothman et al., 2013) and the temperature and pressure measured on board the gondola. Measurements of pressure (by two calibrated and
temperature-regulated capacitance manometers) and temperature (by two probes made of resistive platinum wire) allow for the conversion of the species concentrations to volume mixing ratios. Uncertainties in these parameters are negligible regarding the other uncertainties discussed below. The instrument provides measurements every 1.1 s; thus, measurements have a vertical resolution of a few metres depending on the vertical velocity of the balloon (2 to 5 m s1). Absorption lines in the micro-windows 1260.951261.25, 1598.45 1598.85 and 1701.501701.80 cm1 were selected for N2O,
NO2 and HNO3 respectively. The total error for the volume mixing ratios has been assessed by taking into account the random errors and the systematic errors and combining them as the square root of their quadratic sum (Moreau et al., 2005). There are two important sources of random errors: (1) the uctuations of the laser background emission signal and (2) the signal-to-noise ratio. These error sources are the main contributions for NO2 giving a total uncertainty of 30 % at the lower altitudes (around 15 km), gradually reduced to 20 % around 20 km and decreasing to 5 % at higher altitudes (above 30 km). For HNO3 these random errors are less signicant, but two sources of systematic errors have to be considered: the laser line width (an intrinsic characteristic of the laser diode) and the non-linearity of the detectors resulting in an uncertainty of 20 % on the whole prole. Concerning N2O and ozone, which are abundant and measured using detection systems with a proper linearity of the photovoltaic conversion, the overall uncertainties are 3 % over the whole vertical prole, and decrease from 10 % at 14 km(i.e. for mixing ratios below 1 ppmv) to 5 % above 17 km.
With respect to the above errors, systematic errors on spectroscopic data (essentially molecular line strength and pressure broadening coefcients) are considered to be negligible for these well-studied species (Rothman et al., 2013). SPIRALE was used routinely during the 2000s, in particular as part of European projects and satellite validation campaigns (Grossel et al., 2010; Mbarki et al., 2010; Krysztoak et al., 2012, 2015, and references therein).
A3 The DOAS remote-sensing UVvisible spectrometer
Direct solar spectra from two UVvisible DOAS spectrometers are collected onboard the azimuth-controlled LPMA/DOAS (Limb Prole Monitor of the Atmosphere/Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy) balloon payload which carries a sun tracker (Hawat et al., 1995).The solar reference spectrum is usually the spectrum for which the air mass along the line of sight and the residual trace gas absorption are minimal. The residual absorption in the solar reference is determined using Langleys extrapolation to zero air mass. Rayleigh and Mie scattering are accounted for by including a third-order polynomial in the tting procedure. The relative wavelength alignment of the absorption cross sections and the solar reference spectrum is xed and only the measured spectrum is allowed to shift and
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stretch. O3 SCDs are retrieved from the differential structures in the Chappuis absorption band between 545 and 615 nm.The line-of-sight absorptions of NO2 are inferred from the 435 to 485 nm wavelength range. Two O3 absorption cross sections recorded in the laboratory at 230 and 244 K, aligned to cross sections from Voigt et al. (2001), are orthogonalized and tted simultaneously. Broadband spectral features are represented by a fourth-order polynomial. Additional complications arise from the temperature dependence of the NO2 absorption cross section (Pfeilsticker et al., 2000). The
NO2 analysis is performed using absorption cross sections recorded in the laboratory, scaled and aligned to convolved and orthogonalized cross sections from Harder et al. (1997) taken at 217 and 230 K. The error bars of the retrieved SCDs are estimated via Gaussian error propagation mainly from the statistical error given by the tting routine, the error in determining the residual absorber amount in the solar reference spectrum and the errors of the absorption cross sections. In total, typical accuracies of the DOAS O3 and NO2 measurements are better than 5 and 10 % respectively. The retrieval process for NO2 is described in Butz et al. (2006).
Bromine monoxide (BrO) is detected in the UV wavelength range from 346 to 360 nm as recommended by Aliwell et al. (2002). This wavelength range contains the UV vibration absorption bands (40 at 354.7 nm and 50 at 348.8 nm) of the A(2) X(2) electronic transition of BrO. Typical
optical densities are 104103 for UV vibration absorption bands. The set of reference spectra used contains an NO2 reference spectrum for T = 233 K and two O3 spectra
at T = 197 K and T = 253 K in order to account for temper
ature effects. All NO2 and O3 spectra were recorded with the balloon spectrograph in the laboratory. The BrO reference is the absolute cross section measured by Wahner et al. (1988), with the wavelength calibration taken from our own laboratory measurements. Prole information was obtained by a least-squares prole inversion technique (maximum a posteriori) (Rodgers, 2000). Further details on the BrO DOAS retrieval and the prole inversion can be found in Harder et al. (1998, 2000), Aliwell et al. (2002), Dorf et al. (2006b) and Kreycy et al. (2013). Data are available at http://www.pole-ether.fr/etherTypo/index.php?id=1695&L=1
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A4 The SALOMON remote-sensing UVvisible spectrometer
The data presented in this study were obtained using a Systme dAnalyse par Observation Znithale (SAOZ)-type UVvisible spectrometer (Pommereau and Piquard, 1994) connected to a sun and moon tracker for the detection of ozone and NO2 amounts. The one-band spectral window of
SALOMON between 400 and 950 nm is adequate for the retrieval of absorption features over large spectral ranges,i.e. roughly from 400 to 680 nm for ozone and from 400 to 550 nm for NO2. The spectrum recorded at oat altitude (more than 36.5 km) corresponds to a minimum air
mass and is considered as a reference spectrum. Occultation spectra recorded for elevation angles between 0 and
5 below the gondola horizon are taken into account for the retrieval of the SCDs. Owing to the thermal insulation of the spectrometer, no spectral drift of the Fraunhofer lines and no instrumental resolution changes have been ob-served between the reference and the occultation spectra.The Rayleigh scattering contribution is calculated and removed from the spectra using these proles and the spectral cross sections given by Bucholtz (1995). Then, O3 and
NO2 SCDs are determined by least-squares ts using the University of Bremen high-resolution absorption cross sections convolved to the spectral resolution of the instrument (data available from http://www.iup.uni-bremen.de/gruppen/molspec/databases/index.html
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Vertical concentration proles have been derived using an a posteriori least-squares inversion technique (Rodgers et al., 2000), taking into account the tting error and the uncertainties of the cross sections. Note that the data reduction method used in this study is described by Renard et al. (2000) and Berthet et al. (2002).
For the ight presented in this study we have added an HR4000 UV spectrometer from Ocean Optics to detect BrO absorption lines in the 346360 nm range as done for the DOAS instrument. The spectrometer is thermally insulated and regulated using Peltier devices to avoid spectral shifts.It has its own connection to the sun tracker but collects the sunlight simultaneously with a Jobin Yvon UVvisible spectrometer. We use the same data reduction method as for DOAS as described in detail by Dorf et al. (2006b) to retrieve SCDs and the vertical prole of BrO. In our case the Wahner et al. (1988) BrO and Bremen ozone and NO2 cross sections are convolved to the resolution of the instrument, determined in the laboratory using a UV lamp. SCD data are smoothed to increase the signal-to-noise ratio. The altitude grid for prole inversion is 2 km. Associated random errors are those provided by the spectral t. The major systematic error comes from the uncertain estimation of the residual BrO column above oat altitude. Data are available at http://www.pole-ether.fr/etherTypo/index.php?id=1200&L=1
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Appendix B: Model description
The REPROBUS 3-D CTM computes the evolution of 55 species by means of about 160 photolytic gas-phase and heterogeneous reactions, with a time step of 15 min in this study.
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A semi-Lagrangian code transports 40 species or chemical families, typically long-lived tracers but also more unstable compounds (Lefvre et al., 1994, 1998).
Temperature, winds and surface pressure are specied from the 3-D ECMWF meteorological data from the surface up to 0.01 hPa (i.e. about 80 km in altitude) on 91 levels. This results in a vertical resolution of about 0.45 km in the lower stratosphere. REPROBUS is driven by 3-hourly ECMWF wind elds obtained by interleaving operational analysis and forecasts because in this way spurious calculation of transport is reduced in comparison with simulations based on 6-hourly analysis (Legras et al., 2005; Berthet et al., 2006).
Gas-phase kinetics parameters used in the present study are based on the recommendation by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) described in Sander et al. (2011). In particular for nitrogen gas-phase chemistry, revised kinetic data were recommended because, following a number of studies (e.g.Brown et al., 1999; Gao et al., 1999; Jucks et al., 1999; Osterman et al., 1999; Kondo et al., 2000; Prasad, 2003), a lower rate for the reaction of NO2 with OH and a higher rate for
HNO3 with OH signicantly reduced modelmeasurement discrepancies highlighted in former published work (e.g. Fahey et al., 1993; Kondo et al., 1997; Sen et al., 1998).
The heterogeneous chemistry module includes reactions on liquid aerosols. An analytical expression is used to calculate the equilibrium composition and volume of the H2SO4
H2O droplets as a function of temperature and the total amounts of H2O and H2SO4 (Carslaw et al., 1995). The routine calculates the aqueous phase concentrations for the soluble species HCl, HBr, HOCl and HOBr to calculate the rates of the heterogeneous reactions involving these compounds on stratospheric liquid aerosols. Reactions of N2O5, ClONO2 and BrONO2 on/in sulfuric acid are usually dependent on the species Henrys law solubility and liquid phase diffusion coefcient in the liquid as well as the surface and/or liquid phase reaction rates (Hanson et al., 1994; Shi et al., 2001; Sander et al., 2011). N2O5 hydrolysis takes place at the surface of the particles (Hanson et al., 1994). As in a number of previous studies (e.g. Mills et al., 1993; Gao et al., 1999; Bracher et al., 2005), REPROBUS computes a reaction efciency of 0.1 as default value (0.050.2 in Sander et al., 2011), which is independent of temperature and acid composition. The reaction rate is proportional to and increases with aerosol SAD. For heterogeneous reactions involving ClONO2, kinetics are taken from the well-detailed uptake model of Shi et al. (2001), which uses the parameterization of the H2SO4 / H2O composition of Tabazadeh et al. (1997). These processes are strong functions of the acid composition and temperature. Note that the reaction efciency for ClONO2 described in the JPL recommendation of Sander et al. (2011) is taken from Shi et al. (2001). The BrONO2 reactivity on sulfuric acid particles is computed from the JPL parameterization which is based on the work of Hanson (2003) and shows a rather limited dependence on acid composition and temperature.
Initialized amounts of species are taken from a long-term simulation from the UPMC 2-D model (Bekki and Pyle, 1994; Weisenstein and Bekki, 2006). The initialization of stratospheric chlorine precursors is based on scenarios dened by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO, 2014). Total inorganic chlorine (Cly = HCl + ClONO2+ HOCl + ClO + Cl2O2) is calcu
lated by the model and approaches 3.3 ppbv in the upper stratosphere in 2009, in accordance with the WMO (2014). Note that as expected, this value is reduced compared to the study (3.7 ppbv) by Berthet et al. (2005). Total stratospheric inorganic bromine takes into account the contributions from Halons, methyl bromide and very-short-lived bromine compounds to reach 19.5 pptv, matching the scenario given by WMO (2010) updated from Dorf et al. (2006a).
Gaseous sulfur chemistry is not included in the REPROBUS CTM. The UPMC 2-D model climatology (Bekki and Pyle, 1994) provides the initialization of H2SO4 mixing ratios for the background aerosols. Liquid particles are formed in equilibrium and are assumed to have a predened number density. Mean particle radii and SADs of the liquid aerosols are calculated from the number density and the amount of H2SO4 and H2O assuming a lognormal uni-modal distribution with a xed distribution width.
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Competing interests. The authors declare that they have no conict of interest.
Acknowledgements. The authors are grateful to the CNES (Centre National dEtudes Spatiales) balloon launching team for successful operations and the Swedish Space Corporation at Esrange. The StraPolt project and the associated balloon campaign has been funded by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-BLAN08-1-31627), CNES, and the Institut Polaire Paul-Emile Victor (IPEV). The study is supported by the French Labex tude des gouides et des VOLatilsTerre, Atmosphre et Interfaces Ressources et Environnement (VOLTAIRE) (ANR-10-LABX-100-01) managed by the University of Orleans.The ETHER database (CNES-INSU/CNRS) is a partner of the project. Further support for the DOAS balloon measurements came through the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG (grants PF-384/5-1 and 384/5-1 and PF384/9-1/2) and the European projects EU projects Reconcile (FP7-ENV-2008-1-226365) and SHIVA (FP7-ENV-2007-1-226224). We thank Michel Van Roozendael and Caroline Fayt from BIRA/IASB in Belgium for making available the WINDOAS algorithm in a form very well-adapted to data reduction methods based on the differential optical absorption technique. We acknowledge the MIPAS/Envisat team from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) for making IMK/IAA data available.
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The major volcanic eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 has been shown to have significant effects on stratospheric chemistry and ozone depletion even at midlatitudes. Since then, only <q>moderate</q> but recurrent volcanic eruptions have modulated the stratospheric aerosol loading and are assumed to be one cause for the reported increase in the global aerosol content over the past 15 years. This particularly enhanced aerosol context raises questions about the effects on stratospheric chemistry which depend on the latitude, altitude and season of injection. In this study, we focus on the midlatitude Sarychev volcano eruption in June 2009, which injected 0.9Tg of sulfur dioxide (about 20 times less than Pinatubo) into a lower stratosphere mainly governed by high-stratospheric temperatures. Together with in situ measurements of aerosol amounts, we analyse high-resolution in situ and/or remote-sensing observations of NO<sub>2</sub>, HNO<sub>3</sub> and BrO from balloon-borne infrared and UV-visible spectrometers launched in Sweden in August-September 2009. It is shown that differences between observations and three-dimensional (3-D) chemistry-transport model (CTM) outputs are not due to transport calculation issues but rather reflect the chemical impact of the volcanic plume below 19km altitude. Good measurement-model agreement is obtained when the CTM is driven by volcanic aerosol loadings derived from in situ or space-borne data. As a result of enhanced N<sub>2</sub>O<sub>5</sub> hydrolysis in the Sarychev volcanic aerosol conditions, the model calculates reductions of ∼ 45% and increases of ∼ 11% in NO<sub>2</sub> and HNO<sub>3</sub> amounts respectively over the August-September 2009 period. The decrease in NO<sub>x</sub> abundances is limited due to the expected saturation effect for high aerosol loadings. The links between the various chemical catalytic cycles involving chlorine, bromine, nitrogen and HO<sub>x</sub> compounds in the lower stratosphere are discussed. The increased BrO amounts (∼ 22%) compare rather well with the balloon-borne observations when volcanic aerosol levels are accounted for in the CTM and appear to be mainly controlled by the coupling with nitrogen chemistry rather than by enhanced BrONO<sub>2</sub> hydrolysis. We show that the chlorine partitioning is significantly controlled by enhanced BrONO<sub>2</sub> hydrolysis. However, simulated effects of the Sarychev eruption on chlorine activation are very limited in the high-temperature conditions in the stratosphere in the period considered, inhibiting the effect of ClONO<sub>2</sub> hydrolysis. As a consequence, the simulated chemical ozone loss due to the Sarychev aerosols is low with a reduction of -22ppbv (-1.5%) of the ozone budget around 16km. This is at least 10 times lower than the maximum ozone depletion from chemical processes (up to -20%) reported in the Northern Hemisphere lower stratosphere over the first year following the Pinatubo eruption. This study suggests that moderate volcanic eruptions have limited chemical effects when occurring at midlatitudes (restricted residence times) and outside winter periods (high-temperature conditions). However, it would be of interest to investigate longer-lasting tropical volcanic plumes or sulfur injections in the wintertime low-temperature conditions.
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