THE POTENTIAL OF THE SYNERGY OF SUNPHOTOMETER AND LIDAR DATA TO VALIDATE VERTICAL PROFILES OF THE AEROSOL MASS CONCENTRATION ESTIMATED BY AN AIR QUALITY MODEL.

Vertical profiles of the aerosol mass concentration derived by the Lidar/Radiometer Inversion Code (LIRIC), that uses combined sunphotometer and lidar data, were used in order to validate the aerosol mass concentration profiles estimated by the air quality model CAMx. Lidar and CIMEL measurements performed at the Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (40.5N, 22.9E) from the period 2013-2014 were used in this study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]