Articles | Volume 13, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-893-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-893-2020
Research article
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21 Feb 2020
Research article |  | 21 Feb 2020

The potential of elastic and polarization lidars to retrieve extinction profiles

Elina Giannakaki, Panos Kokkalis, Eleni Marinou, Nikolaos S. Bartsotas, Vassilis Amiridis, Albert Ansmann, and Mika Komppula

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Worldwide observations with the portable Raman lidar systems (Polly) Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research http://polly.tropos.de/

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Short summary
A new method, called ElEx, is proposed for the estimation of extinction coefficient lidar profiles using only the information provided by the elastic and polarization channels of a lidar system. The method is applicable to lidar measurements both during daytime and nighttime under well-defined aerosol mixtures. Comparisons with both Raman lidar profiles during nightime and sun photometer daytime aerosol optical depth observations demonstrate the potential of the ElEx methodology.