Airborne sun photometer PLASMA: concept, measurements, comparison of aerosol extinction vertical profile with lidar

Karol, Y.; Tanré, D.; Goloub, P.; Vervaerde, C.; Balois, J. Y.; Blarel, L.; Podvin, T.; Mortier, A.; Chaikovsky, A.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-2383-2013

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Atmos. Meas. Tech., 6, 2383–2389, 2013

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-2383-2013

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Atmos. Meas. Tech., 6, 2383–2389, 2013

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-2383-2013

© Author(s) 2013. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

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Research article 16 Sep 2013

Research article | 16 Sep 2013

Airborne sun photometer PLASMA: concept, measurements, comparison of aerosol extinction vertical profile with lidar

Y. Karol^1,2, D. Tanré¹, P. Goloub¹, C. Vervaerde¹, J. Y. Balois¹, L. Blarel¹, T. Podvin¹, A. Mortier¹, and A. Chaikovsky² Y. Karol et al.

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¹Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique (LOA), UMR8518, CNRS – Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
²B. I. Stepanov Institute of Physics National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 68, Nezavisimosti av., 220072 Minsk, Belarus

Received: 01 Aug 2012 – Discussion started: 19 Sep 2012 – Revised: 05 Aug 2013 – Accepted: 05 Aug 2013 – Published: 16 Sep 2013

Abstract. A 15-channel airborne sun-tracking photometer has been developed. The instrument provides aerosol optical depths over a wide spectral range (0.34–2.25 μm) with an accuracy (ΔAOD) of approximately 0.01. Taking measurements at different altitudes allow us to derive the aerosol extinction vertical profile. Thanks to the wide spectral range of the instrument, information on the aerosol size distribution along the vertical is also available.