Vertical profiles of aerosol optical properties and the solar heating rate
estimated by combining sky radiometer and lidar measurements

Kudo, Rei; Nishizawa, Tomoaki; Aoyagi, Toshinori

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3223-2016

Articles | Volume 9, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3223-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3223-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 7

Research article

|

22 Jul 2016

Research article |

| 22 Jul 2016

Vertical profiles of aerosol optical properties and the solar heating rate estimated by combining sky radiometer and lidar measurements

Rei Kudo, Tomoaki Nishizawa, and Toshinori Aoyagi

Data sets

The lidar data AD-Net Data Center http://www-lidar.nies.go.jp/

The sky radiometer data SKYNET Data Center http://www-lidar.nies.go.jp/skynet/

Short summary

An algorithm for estimating the vertical profiles of the aerosol physical and optical properties, and the solar heating rate from combining sky radiometer and lidar measurements was proposed. The validity and performance of the algorithm were shown by the intensive sensitivity tests using simulated data for different aerosol profiles and the application to the actual measurements in Tsukuba, Japan.