Profiling Dust Mass Concentration in Northwest China Using a Joint Lidar and Sun-Photometer Setting

SAWA experiment – properties of mineral dust aerosol as seen by synergic lidar and sun-photometer measurements

A long Saharan dust event over the western Mediterranean: Lidar, Sun photometer observations, and regional dust modeling

[1] A long Saharan dust event affected the western Mediterranean in the period 12– 28 June 2002. Dust was present mainly between 1and 5-km height affecting most parts of the Iberian Peninsula and reaching western/central Europe. Intensive backscatter lidar observations over Barcelona (Spain) and Sun photometer data from two stations (El Arenosillo, Spain, and Avignon, France) are used to evalua...

Fine and coarse dust separation with polarization lidar

The polarization-lidar photometer networking (POLIPHON) method for separating dust and non-dust aerosol backscatter and extinction, volume, and mass concentration is extended to allow for a height-resolved separation of fine-mode and coarse-mode dust properties in addition. The method is applied to a period with complex aerosol layering of fine-mode background dust from Turkey and Arabian deser...

Estimating surface visibility at Hong Kong from ground-based LIDAR, sun photometer and operational MODIS products.

Hong Kong's surface visibility has decreased in recent years due to air pollution from rapid social and economic development in the region. In addition to deteriorating health standards, reduced visibility disrupts routine civil and public operations, most notably transportation and aviation. Regional estimates of visibility solved operationally using available ground and satellite-based estima...

On the Lidar Ratio Estimation from the Synergy between Aeronet Sun-photometer Data and Elastic Lidar Inversion

The method of aerosol lidar ratio estimation from combined backscatter lidar/sun photometer measurements is analytically reformulated in terms of an objective function ready to be automated by standard numerical tools. Lidar aerosol optical thickness (AOT) extrapolation methods in the lowermost part of the boundary layer where lidar data is usually no longer valid are also presented. Finally, a...