Geometrical and optical properties of cirrus clouds in Barcelona, Spain: analysis with the two-way transmittance method of 4 years of lidar measurements
Cristina Gil-Díaz,Michäel Sicard,Adolfo Comerón,Daniel Camilo Fortunato dos Santos Oliveira,Constantino Muñoz-Porcar,Alejandro Rodríguez-Gómez,Jasper R. Lewis,Ellsworth J. Welton,and Simone Lolli
CommSensLab, Dept of Signal Theory and Communications, Universitat Politècncia de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, 08034, Spain
Ciències i Tecnologies de l'Espai-Centre de Recerca de l'Aeronàutica i de l'Espai/Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (CTE-CRAE/IEEC), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, 08034, Spain
now at: Laboratoire de l'Atmosphère et des Cyclones, Université de La Réunion, Saint-Denis, 97744, France
In this paper, a statistical study of cirrus geometrical and optical properties based on 4 years of continuous ground-based lidar measurements with the Barcelona (Spain) Micro Pulse Lidar (MPL) is analysed. The cloud optical depth, effective column lidar ratio and linear cloud depolarisation ratio have been calculated by a new approach to the two-way transmittance method, which is valid for both ground-based and spaceborne lidar systems. Their associated errors are also provided.
In this paper, a statistical study of cirrus geometrical and optical properties based on 4 years...
