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Research article
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23 Mar 2022
Research article |
| 23 Mar 2022
| 23 Mar 2022
Empirical model of multiple-scattering effect on single-wavelength lidar data of aerosols and clouds
Valery Shcherbakov
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, UMR 6016, 63178 Aubière, France
Institut Universitaire de Technologie Clermont Auvergne – site de Montluçon, Université Clermont Auvergne, 03100 Montluçon, France
Frédéric Szczap
Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, UMR 6016, 63178 Aubière, France
Alaa Alkasem
Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, UMR 6016, 63178 Aubière, France
Guillaume Mioche
Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, UMR 6016, 63178 Aubière, France
Institut Universitaire de Technologie Clermont Auvergne – site de Montluçon, Université Clermont Auvergne, 03100 Montluçon, France
Céline Cornet
Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique, Université Lille 1, CNRS, UMR 8518, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
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- Incorporating EarthCARE observations into a multi-lidar cloud climate record: the ATLID (Atmospheric Lidar) cloud climate product A. Feofilov et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-3363-2023
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- Classification of Cloud Phases in Cold-Air Outbreak Events Based on Polarization Lidar and Cloud Radar Observations Y. Zhang et al. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2026.3663561
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- Research on the Attenuation Characteristics of LiDAR Transmission Energy in Different Atmospheric Environments X. Yang et al. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos16020210
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- Computation of the Attenuated Backscattering Coefficient by the Backscattering Lidar Signal Simulator (BLISS) in the Framework of the CALIOP/CALIPSO Observations F. Szczap et al. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos14020249
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Short summary
We performed extensive Monte Carlo (MC) simulations of lidar signals and developed an empirical model to account for the multiple scattering in the lidar signals. The simulations have taken into consideration four types of lidar configurations (the ground based, the airborne, the CALIOP, and the ATLID) and four types of particles (coarse aerosol, water cloud, jet-stream cirrus, and cirrus).
The empirical model has very good quality of MC data fitting for all considered cases.
We performed extensive Monte Carlo (MC) simulations of lidar signals and developed an empirical...
