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Aerosol absorption profiling from the synergy of lidar and sun-photometry: the ACTRIS-2 campaigns in Germany, Greece and Cyprus
- Source :
- EPJ Web of Conferences, EPJ Web of Conferences, Vol 176, p 08005 (2018), The Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) onboard the International Space Station (ISS), is a lidar system providing vertically resolved aerosol and cloud profiles since February 2015. In this study, the CATS aerosol product is validated against the aerosol profiles provided by the European Aerosol Research Lidar Network (EARLINET). This validation activity is based on collocated CATS-EARLINET measurements and the comparison of the particle backscatter coefficient at 1064nm.: Bucharest, Romania, June 25-30, 2017, 176
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Aerosol absorption profiling is crucial for radiative transfer calculations and climate modelling. Here, we utilize the synergy of lidar with sun-photometer measurements to derive the absorption coefficient and single scattering albedo profiles during the ACTRIS-2 campaigns held in Germany, Greece and Cyprus. The remote sensing techniques are compared with in situ measurements in order to harmonize and validate the different methodologies and reduce the absorption profiling uncertainties.
- Subjects :
- 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Single-scattering albedo
Physics
QC1-999
01 natural sciences
Photometry (optics)
Lidar
0103 physical sciences
Aerosol absorption
Radiative transfer
Profiling (information science)
010306 general physics
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Remote sensing
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 2100014X
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- EPJ Web of Conferences
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....743c198226461bb9bcb57a48d66754d9
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201817608005