Theoretical derivation of aerosol lidar ratio using Mie theory for CALIOP-CALIPSO and OPAC aerosol models

Chipade, Radhika A.; Pandya, Mehul R.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-5443-2023

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-5443-2023

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-5443-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 22

Research article

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14 Nov 2023

Research article |

| 14 Nov 2023

Theoretical derivation of aerosol lidar ratio using Mie theory for CALIOP-CALIPSO and OPAC aerosol models

Radhika A. Chipade and Mehul R. Pandya

Data sets

AERONET, Aerosol Inversions NASA https://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/new_web/webtool_inv_v3.html

Short summary

The extinction-to-backscattering ratio, popularly known as lidar ratio of atmospheric aerosols, is an important optical property, which is essential to retrieve the extinction profiles of atmospheric aerosols. A physics-based theoretical approach is presented in the present paper that estimates lidar ratio values for CALIPSO and OPAC aerosol models, which can be used as inputs to determine the extinction profiles of aerosols using CALIPSO data.