1. South American Aerosol Tracking - LALINET.
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Landulfo, Eduardo, Lopes, Fabio, Ristori, Pablo, Quel, Eduardo, Otero, Lidia, Forno, Ricardo, Sanchez, Maria Fernanda, Barbosa, Henrique, Gouveia, Diego, Santos, Amanda Vieira, Bastidas, Alvaro, and Nisperuza, Daniel
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ATMOSPHERIC aerosols ,OPTICAL properties ,ATMOSPHERIC models ,REMOTE sensing ,LIDAR - Abstract
LALINET lidar stations were used to track down aerosols generated over Amazon region and transported over the continent. These data were merged with collocated Aeronet stations in order to help in their identification together with HYSPLIT simulations. The results show potential indication of how aerosol can age in their long transport over regions South and Westward from the source areas by change of their optical properties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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