Retrieval of aerosol microphysical properties from atmospheric lidar sounding: an investigation using synthetic measurements and data from the ACEPOL campaign

McLean, William G. K.; Fu, Guangliang; Burton, Sharon P.; Hasekamp, Otto P.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-4755-2021

Articles | Volume 14, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-4755-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-4755-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 6

Research article

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01 Jul 2021

Research article |

| 01 Jul 2021

Retrieval of aerosol microphysical properties from atmospheric lidar sounding: an investigation using synthetic measurements and data from the ACEPOL campaign

William G. K. McLean, Guangliang Fu, Sharon P. Burton, and Otto P. Hasekamp

Data sets

Airborne Science Data for Atmospheric Composition, ACEPOL NASA https://www-air.larc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/ArcView/acepol

Short summary

In this study, we present results from aerosol retrievals using both synthetic and real lidar datasets, including measurements from the ACEPOL (Aerosol Characterization from Polarimeter and Lidar) campaign, a combined initiative between NASA and SRON (the Netherlands Institute for Space Research). Aerosol microphysical retrievals were performed using the High Spectral Resolution Lidar-2 (HSRL-2) setup, alongside several others, with the ACEPOL retrievals also compared to polarimeter retrievals.