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Session Proposal: Modeling the Hunga volcanic eruption: synthesis of atmospheric and climate impacts (AGU25)

A075
Modeling the Hunga volcanic eruption: synthesis of atmospheric and climate impacts

Session ID#: 251923

Session Description:
The Hunga Tonga (HTHH) volcanic eruption in January 2022 was the most explosive volcanic eruption in the satellite era, with impacts on the atmosphere and climate system. Along with analyses of observations, the research community has organized the HTHH Model-Observations Comparison Project (HTHH-MOC), including long-term simulations with several different chemistry-climate models. This session will focus on analysis of Hunga impacts simulated among the different models, including effects on the atmospheric circulation, transport and chemistry, detailed evolution of the water vapor and aerosol plumes, whole atmosphere influences and radiative/climate effects. We also welcome updated analyses of observations related to Hunga, along with research that compares Hunga with other stratospheric eruptions, and research that is aligned with Hunga impacts.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

0340 Middle atmosphere: composition and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0370 Volcanic effects [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
3337 Global climate models [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Primary Convener:  William John Randel, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Graham W Mann, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom and Paul A Newman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 610, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Yunqian Zhu, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States
 
The 2022 Hunga Eruption: Radiative Forcing and Atmospheric Impact APARC Report (1861378)
Georgiy L Stenchikov, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, Mark R Schoeberl, Science and Technology Corporation, Earth Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Ewa Bednarz, CIRES / NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, Ilaria Quaglia, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, United States, Zhihong Zhuo, University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM), Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada, Eric L Fleming, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Yi Huang, McGill University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada, Pasquale Sellitto, Université Paris Est Créteil, Université de Paris-Cité, CNRS, Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA-IPSL), Créteil Cedex, France, Claudia Timmreck, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, Matthew Toohey, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada and Jun Wang, University of Iowa, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Iowa City, IA, United States
 
Multi-model analysis of the radiative impacts of the 2022 Hunga eruption indicates a significant cooling contribution from the volcanic plume (Invited) (1865823)
Ilaria Quaglia1, Daniele Visioni2, Ewa Bednarz3,4, Yunqian Zhu5,6, Georgiy L Stenchikov7, Cheng-Cheng Liu8, Graham W Mann9, Yifeng Peng10, Takashi Sekiya11, Simone Tilmes12, Xinyue Wang13, Shingo Watanabe14, Pengfei Yu15, Jun Zhang1 and Wandi Yu16, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (2)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (3)NOAA, Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (4)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States, (5)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, (6)NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (7)King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, (8)University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (9)University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (10)Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, (11)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Research Institute for Global Change, Kanagawa, Japan, (12)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (13)Purdue University, EAPS, West Lafayette, United States, (14)Tohoku University, Advanced Institute for Marine-Ecosystem Change, Sendai, Japan, (15)Jinan University, Institute for Environmental and Climate Research, Guangzhou, China, (16)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States
 
Evaluating models skills in simulating the evolution of aerosols and water vapor from the Hunga eruption: results from HTHH-MOC Exp2a. (1867218)
Valentina Aquila, American University, Department of Environmental Science, Washington, DC, United States, Rei Ueyama, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, Adam E Bourassa, University of Saskatchewan, Department of Physics & Engineering Physics, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Sergey Khaykin, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), CNRS/INSU, Sorbonne Université, Guyancourt, France, Alexandre Baron, CIRES, U. of Colorado, Boulder / NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, Landon A Rieger, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada and Alexei Rozanov, University of Bremen, Institute of Environmental Physics, Bremen, Germany
 
Updates on observed middle atmosphere cooling from Hunga (1874428)
William John Randel, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Jon Starr, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States and Xinyue Wang, University of Colorado at Boulder, ATOC, Boulder, United States
 
Clarifying the Fate of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai Water Vapor with Tagged Volcanic Tracer Simulations (1879037)
Aaron Mark Johnson, Mark Flanner and Christiane Jablonowski, University of Michigan, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States
 
Comparing Multi-Model Ensemble Simulations with Observations and Decadal Projections of Upper Atmospheric Variations Following the Hunga Eruption (1880829)
Zhihong Zhuo, University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM), Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada, Xinyue Wang, University of Colorado at Boulder, ATOC, Boulder, United States, Yunqian Zhu, NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, Francesco S.R. Pausata, University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM), Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Montreal, Canada and Hunga assessment team
 
Hunga Effects on Stratospheric Temperatures and Circulation (1884478)
Xinyue Wang, University of Colorado at Boulder, ATOC, Boulder, United States and Lawrence Coy, NASA GSFC and SSAI, Greenbelt, United States
 
The 2022 Hunga Eruption: middle and upper atmospheric effects (1913853)
Corwin Wright, University of Bath, Bath, BA2, United Kingdom, Jia Yue, GSFC, NASA, Greenbelt, United States, Neil Hindley, University of Bath, Centre for Climate Adaptation and Environment Research, Bath, BA2, United Kingdom, Jiuhou Lei, Univ. of Sci. & Tech. of Chin, Hefei, Anhui, China, Luis Millan, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Sandra Wallis, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany and Wandi Yu, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States
 
When Will the Stratospheric Water Vapour Return to Pre-Hunga Level? (1918531)
Xin Zhou1,2, Quanliang Chen3, Wuhu Feng2, Saffron Heddell2, Sandip Dhomse2, Graham W Mann4, Hugh C Pumphrey5, Luis Millan6, Michelle L Santee7 and Martyn Chipperfield2, (1)Chengdu University of Information Technology, School of Atmospheric Science, Chengdu, China, (2)University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom, (3)Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu, China, (4)University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (5)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)JPL, Pasadena, United States
 
Modelling the Impact of Hunga on Polar Stratospheric Ozone Depletion (1918933)
Saffron Heddell1, Martyn Chipperfield2, Graham W Mann3, Sandip Dhomse2, Wuhu Feng2, Masaru Yoshioka1 and Xin Zhou4, (1)University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, (2)University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom, (3)University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (4)Chengdu University of Information Technology, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Chengdu, China
 
Changes in Stratospheric Chlorine Partitioning Observed by the MkIV Balloon Interferometer after the 2022 Eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai and their Impact on Stratospheric Chemistry (1933122)
Armin Kleinboehl1, Geoffrey C Toon1, J F Blavier2, Laila Howar3 and Ross J Salawitch4, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (4)University of Maryland, AOSC and Chemistry, College Park, United States
 
The Hunga Impacts Report Chapter 5: Effects of the Hunga eruption on stratospheric ozone and related trace gases (Invited) (1976142)
Freja F Oesterstroem, Aarhus University, Department of Environmental Science, Roskilde, Denmark; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, Michelle L Santee, JPL, Pasadena, United States, Martyn Chipperfield, University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom, Stephanie Evan, CIRES, Boulder, United States, Dan Smale, National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Lauder, New Zealand, Krzysztof Wargan, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, David M Wilmouth, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States and Ingo Wohltmann, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
 
Stratospheric Circulation in the Southern Hemisphere: Links to Tropical Winds, Ozone, and the Hunga Eruption – Evidence from ERA5 Reanalysis (1995283)
Wandi Yu, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, Xinyue Wang, Purdue University, EAPS, West Lafayette, United States, William John Randel, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Rolando R Garcia, Natl Ctr Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Paul A Newman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 610, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Sean M Davis, Chemical Sciences Division, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory; Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States and Karen Rosenlof, NOAA, Boulder, United States
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