Articles | Volume 19, issue 13
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-19-4477-2026
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-19-4477-2026
Research article
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07 Jul 2026
Research article |  | 07 Jul 2026

Classification of atmospheric aerosols over Urmia Lake based on lidar observations

Salar Alizadeh, Ruhollah Moradhaseli, and Hamid Reza Khalesifard

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The Urmia Lake, a hypersaline lake in Northwest Iran, has the potential to act as a source of mineral atmospheric aerosols. To find how active it is, we installed an azimuthal scanning polarization lidar at its southwestern coast. We just studied the plumes. During the campaign (11–29 September 2022), we recorded 64 aerosol plumes. We categorized the aerosols into dust, salt-dust, and wet-salt particles. We found 25 % of the plumes were dust dominant, and the rest were contained salt or salt-dust.
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