edu.ucar.opensky::articles:27449 UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact 2025-12-24T18:08:34.932408 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7kh0sj8 https://doi.org/10.15770/EUM_SAF_GRM_0001 https Related Dataset #1 Radio Occultation Reprocessed Climate Data Record - Multimission https://doi.org/10.5067/Aura/MLS/DATA2009 https Related Dataset #2 MLS/Aura L2 Water Vapor (H2O) Mixing Ratio - Version 4 https://doi.org/10.5067/Aura/MLS/DATA2017 https Related Dataset #3 MLS/Aura L2 Ozone (O3) Mixing Ratio - Version 4 https://doi.org/10.5067/Aura/MLS/DATA2021 https Related Dataset #4 MLS/Aura L2 Temperature - Version 4 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12682814 https Related Dataset #5 Datasets related to the paper Stocker et al. (2024), Strong persistent cooling of the stratosphere after the Hunga eruption https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12697984 https Related Software #1 HiasiSt/hunga_paper: Initial release Strong persistent cooling of the stratosphere after the Hunga eruption 2024-08-21T00:00:00Z publication https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7kh0sj8 https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01620-3 M. Stocker author Steiner, A. K. author Ladstädter, F. author Foelsche, U. author Randel, William author UCAR/NCAR - Library publisher The 2022 eruption of the Hunga volcano was a major event that propelled aerosols and water vapor up to an altitude of 53-57 km. It caused an unprecedented stratospheric hydration that is expected to affect composition, thermal structure, circulation and dynamics for years. Using vertically high resolved satellite observations from radio occultation, we focus on the temperature impact in the stratosphere from the eruption in January 2022 until December 2023. Separating the signals of the Hunga eruption from the broader stratospheric variability reveals a strong persistent radiative cooling of up to -4 K in the tropical and subtropical middle stratosphere from early after the eruption until mid-2023, clearly corresponding to the water vapor distribution. Our results provide new insights from observations into both the localized temperature changes and the persistent stratospheric cooling caused by the Hunga eruption and document this exceptional climatic effect not seen for previous volcanic eruptions. UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact PDF Text theme Resource Type 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z publication Copyright author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. None eng geoscientificInformation