Vertical profiles of aerosol mass concentration derived by unmanned airborne in situ and remote sensing instruments during dust events

Mamali, Dimitra; Marinou, Eleni; Sciare, Jean; Pikridas, Michael; Kokkalis, Panagiotis; Kottas, Michael; Binietoglou, Ioannis; Tsekeri, Alexandra; Keleshis, Christos; Engelmann, Ronny; Baars, Holger; Ansmann, Albert; Amiridis, Vassilis; Russchenberg, Herman; Biskos, George

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-2897-2018

Articles | Volume 11, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-2897-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-2897-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 5

Research article

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17 May 2018

Research article |

| 17 May 2018

Vertical profiles of aerosol mass concentration derived by unmanned airborne in situ and remote sensing instruments during dust events

Dimitra Mamali, Eleni Marinou, Jean Sciare, Michael Pikridas, Panagiotis Kokkalis, Michael Kottas, Ioannis Binietoglou, Alexandra Tsekeri, Christos Keleshis, Ronny Engelmann, Holger Baars, Albert Ansmann, Vassilis Amiridis, Herman Russchenberg, and George Biskos

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RC1: 'comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 01 Feb 2018
- AC2: 'Response to RC1', Dimitra Mamali, 27 Mar 2018
RC2: 'Comment on "Vertical profiles of aerosol mass concentrations observed during dust events by unmanned airborne in-situ and remote sensing instruments"', Anonymous Referee #1, 08 Feb 2018
- AC1: 'Response to RC2', Dimitra Mamali, 27 Mar 2018

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AR by Dimitra Mamali on behalf of the Authors (27 Mar 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (05 Apr 2018) by Szymon Malinowski

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The paper's scope is to evaluate the performance of in situ atmospheric aerosol instrumentation on board unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and the performance of algorithms used to calculate the aerosol mass from remote sensing instruments by comparing the two independent techniques to each other. Our results indicate that UAV-based aerosol measurements (using specific in situ and remote sensing instrumentation) can provide reliable ways to determine the aerosol mass throughout the atmosphere.