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- Title
Aerosol in the upper layer of earth's atmosphere.
- Authors
Morozhenko, A.; Vidmachenko, A.; Nevodovskii, P.
- Abstract
The upper atmospheric layer of Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and earth contains an aerosol layer. The meteorites, rings, and removal of small planetary particles may be responsible for its appearance. The observations from 1979-1992 have shown that the optical aerosol thickness over the earth's polar regions varies from τ ≈ 0.0002 to 0.1 to λ = 1 μm. The highest τ value was in 1984 and 1992 and was preceded by intense activity of the El Chichon (1982) and Pinatubo (1991) volcanoes. We have shown that increase in τ of the stratospheric aerosol may lead to decrease in ozone layer registered in the 1970s. The nature of the stratospheric aerosol (a real part of the refraction index), effective size particles r, and latitudinal variation τ remain unknown. The analysis of phase dependence of the degree of polarization is effective among the distal methods of determination of n and r. The observation value of intensity and degree of polarization in the visible light are caused by the optical surface properties and optical atmospheric thickness, whose values varied with latitude, longitude, and in time. Thus, it is impossible to correctly distinguish the contribution of the stratospheric aerosol. In UV-rays (λ < 300 nm), the ozone layer stops the influence of the surface and earth's atmosphere up to height of 20-25 km. In this spectrum area, the negative factors are emission of various depolarizating gases, horizontal heterogeneity of the effective optical height of the ozone layer, and oriented particles indicated by variation of the polarization plane.
- Subjects
ATMOSPHERIC aerosols; ATMOSPHERE; MOUNT Pinatubo Eruption, 1991; CHICHON Eruption, 1982; POLARIZATION (Electricity)
- Publication
Kinematics & Physics of Celestial Bodies, 2013, Vol 29, Issue 5, p243
- ISSN
0884-5913
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3103/S0884591313050073