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