Articles | Volume 18, issue 18
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-6023-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-6023-2025
Development and technical paper
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16 Sep 2025
Development and technical paper |  | 16 Sep 2025

REtrieval Method for optical and physical Aerosol Properties in the stratosphere (REMAPv1)

Andrin Jörimann, Timofei Sukhodolov, Beiping Luo, Gabriel Chiodo, Graham Mann, and Thomas Peter

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Aerosol particles in the stratosphere affect our climate. Climate models therefore need an accurate description of their properties and evolution. Satellites measure how strongly aerosol particles extinguish light passing through the stratosphere. We describe a method to use such aerosol extinction data to retrieve the number and sizes of the aerosol particles and calculate their optical effects. The resulting data sets for models are validated against ground-based and balloon observations.
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