The potential of elastic and polarization lidars to retrieve extinction profiles

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

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-893-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-893-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-893-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 2

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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RC1: 'Comments on paper AMT-2019-271', Anonymous Referee #2, 14 Nov 2019
- AC1: 'Reply to 1st Referee comment', Eleni Giannakaki, 23 Dec 2019
RC2: 'Review of the paper by Giannakaki et al.', Anonymous Referee #3, 19 Nov 2019
- AC2: 'Reply to 2nd Referee comment', Eleni Giannakaki, 23 Dec 2019

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ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (06 Jan 2020) by Andrew Sayer

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (09 Jan 2020)

ED: Publish as is (09 Jan 2020) by Andrew Sayer

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.