Separation of the optical and mass features of particle  components in different aerosol mixtures by using POLIPHON retrievals in synergy with continuous  polarized Micro-Pulse Lidar (P-MPL) measurements

Córdoba-Jabonero, Carmen; Sicard, Michaël; Ansmann, Albert; del Águila, Ana; Baars, Holger

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-4775-2018

Articles | Volume 11, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-4775-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-4775-2018

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

Articles | Volume 11, issue 8

Research article

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15 Aug 2018

Research article |

| 15 Aug 2018

Separation of the optical and mass features of particle components in different aerosol mixtures by using POLIPHON retrievals in synergy with continuous polarized Micro-Pulse Lidar (P-MPL) measurements

Carmen Córdoba-Jabonero, Michaël Sicard, Albert Ansmann, Ana del Águila, and Holger Baars

Data sets

AERONET AERONET aerosol data base http://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/

MPLNET lidar data base MPLNET http://mplnet.gsfc.nasa.gov

HYbrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory model, backward trajectory calculation tool HYSPLIT http://ready.arl.noaa.gov/HYSPLIT_traj.php

Short summary

The high potential of the MPLNET polarized Micro-Pulse LiDAR (P-MPL) is demonstrated in synergy with the POLIPHON (POlarization-LIdar PHOtometer Networking) method to retrieve the vertical separation of both the optical and mass features of the dust, smoke and pollen components mixed with other aerosols. This synergetic procedure can be easily applied to the worldwide MPLNET lidar systems and to space-borne lidars: the ongoing NASA CALIPSO/CALIOP and the forthcoming ESA EarthCARE/ATLID.