Articles | Volume 17, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-693-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-693-2024
Research article
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29 Jan 2024
Research article |  | 29 Jan 2024

HETEAC-Flex: an optimal estimation method for aerosol typing based on lidar-derived intensive optical properties

Athena Augusta Floutsi, Holger Baars, and Ulla Wandinger

Model code and software

pyLARDA v3.2 J. Bühl, M. Radenz, W. Schimmel, T. Vogl, J. Röttenbacher, and M. Lochmann https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4721311

HETEAC-Flex v1.0 A. A. Floutsi, H. Baars, and U. Wandinger https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10499838

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Short summary
We introduce an aerosol-typing scheme (HETEAC-Flex) based on lidar-derived intensive optical properties and applicable to ground-based and spaceborne lidars. HETEAC-Flex utilizes the optimal estimation method and enables the identification of up to four different aerosol components, as well as the determination of their contribution to the aerosol mixture in terms of relative volume. The aerosol components represent common aerosol types such as dust, sea salt, smoke and pollution.