Articles | Volume 11, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-949-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-949-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Characterization of smoke and dust episode over West Africa: comparison of MERRA-2 modeling with multiwavelength Mie–Raman lidar observations
Igor Veselovskii
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Physics Instrumentation Center of GPI, Troitsk, Moscow, Russia
Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, UMBC, Baltimore, USA
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, USA
Philippe Goloub
Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérie, Université de Lille-CNRS, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
Thierry Podvin
Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérie, Université de Lille-CNRS, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
Didier Tanre
Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérie, Université de Lille-CNRS, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
Arlindo da Silva
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, USA
Peter Colarco
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, USA
Patricia Castellanos
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, USA
Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, Maryland, USA
Mikhail Korenskiy
Physics Instrumentation Center of GPI, Troitsk, Moscow, Russia
Qiaoyun Hu
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, USA
David N. Whiteman
Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérie, Université de Lille-CNRS, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
Daniel Pérez-Ramírez
Applied Physics Department, University of Granada, Spain
Patrick Augustin
Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, France
Marc Fourmentin
Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, France
Alexei Kolgotin
Physics Instrumentation Center of GPI, Troitsk, Moscow, Russia
Data sets
MPL observations for SHADOW campaign LOA http://loa-ptfi.univ-lille1.fr/lidar/calendars/cal_2015_mbour.php
Short summary
Observations of multiwavelength Mie–Raman lidar during smoke episode over West Africa are compared with the vertical distribution of aerosol parameters provided by the MERRA-2 model. The values of modeled and observed extinctions at both 355 nm and 532 nm are also rather close. The model predicts significant concentration of dust particles inside the smoke layer. This is supported by a high depolarization ratio of 15 % observed in the center of this layer.
Observations of multiwavelength Mie–Raman lidar during smoke episode over West Africa are...