Volcanic SO 2 Conversion to Sulfate Aerosols: Impact on Nadir TIR Satellite Observations

Volcanic eruptions are a major natural source of gases and aerosols, which perturbs the atmospheric chemistry (Graf et al. in Chem Geol 147:131–45, 1998) and the Earth’s radiative transfer (Robock and Oppenheimer in Volcanism and the Earth’s atmosphere. Washington, DC, USA: American Geophysical Union, pp. 187–236, 2003).