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06 May 2024
Research article |
| 06 May 2024
| 06 May 2024
An iterative algorithm to simultaneously retrieve aerosol extinction and effective radius profiles using CALIOP
Liang Chang
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters (CIC-FEMD), Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
Jingjing Ren
Intelligent Science & Technology Academy Limited of CASIC, Beijing 100041, China
Changrui Xiong
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Lu Zhang
Key Laboratory of Radiometric Calibration and Validation for Environmental Satellites, National Satellite Meteorological Center (National Center for Space Weather), China Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100081, China
Innovation Center for FengYun Meteorological Satellite (FYSIC), Beijing 100081, China
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Short summary
We described a modified lidar inversion algorithm to retrieve aerosol extinction and size distribution simultaneously from two-wavelength elastic lidar measurements. Its major advantage is that the lidar ratio of each layer is determined iteratively by a lidar ratio–Ångström exponent lookup table. The algorithm was applied to the Raman lidar and CALIOP measurements. The retrieved results by our method are in good agreement with those achieved by Raman method.
We described a modified lidar inversion algorithm to retrieve aerosol extinction and size...
