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Science 4 June 1982:
Vol. 216. no. 4550, pp. 1115 - 1118
DOI: 10.1126/science.216.4550.1115
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Stratospheric Aerosol Effects from Soufriere Volcano as Measured by the SAGE Satellite System

M. PATRICK MCCORMICK 1, G. S. KENT 2, G. K. YUE 2, and D. M. CUNNOLD 3

1 NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia 23665
2 Institute for Atmospheric Optics and Remote Sensing, Hampton 23666
3 Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta 30332

During its April 1979 eruption series, Soufriere Volcano produced two major stratospheric plumes that the SAGE (Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment) satellite system tracked to West Africa and the North Atlantic Ocean. The total mass of these plumes, whose movement and dispersion are in agreement with those deduced from meteorological data and dispersion theory, was less than 0.5 percent of the global stratospheric aerosol burden; no significant temperature or climate perturbation is therefore expected.

Submitted on July 24, 1981
Revised on January 11, 1982


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Airborne Lidar Measurements of the Soufriere Eruption of 17 April 1979.
W. H. FULLER JR., S. SOKOL, and W. H. HUNT (1982)
Science 216, 1113-1115
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Stratospheric Nitrogen Dioxide in the Vicinity of Soufriere, St. Vincent.
G. J. ROMICK, D. G. MURCRAY, and W. J. WILLIAMS (1982)
Science 216, 1123-1124
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