Physical and optical characteristics of the October 2010 haze event over Singapore: A photometric and lidar analysis

a Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing (CRISP), National University of Singapore, Block S17, Level 2, 10 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119076, Singapore b Sigma Space Corporation, Code 614.4, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA c Micro-Pulse Lidar Network, Code 613.1, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA d Naval Research Laboratory, Marine Meteorology Division, 7 Grace Hopper Avenue Stop 2, Monterey, CA 93943‐5502, USA e Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore