The CU 2-D-MAX-DOAS instrument – Part 2: Raman scattering probability
measurements and retrieval of aerosol optical properties

Ortega, Ivan; Coburn, Sean; Berg, Larry K.; Lantz, Kathy; Michalsky, Joseph; Ferrare, Richard A.; Hair, Johnathan W.; Hostetler, Chris A.; Volkamer, Rainer

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3893-2016

Articles | Volume 9, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3893-2016

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3893-2016

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

Articles | Volume 9, issue 8

Research article

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23 Aug 2016

Research article |

| 23 Aug 2016

The CU 2-D-MAX-DOAS instrument – Part 2: Raman scattering probability measurements and retrieval of aerosol optical properties

Ivan Ortega, Sean Coburn, Larry K. Berg, Kathy Lantz, Joseph Michalsky, Richard A. Ferrare, Johnathan W. Hair, Chris A. Hostetler, and Rainer Volkamer

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RC1: 'review', Anonymous Referee #1, 13 Feb 2016
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RC2: 'Review of ant-2015-385 by Ortega et al., 2016', Anonymous Referee #2, 22 Feb 2016
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer 2', I. Ortega, 12 Apr 2016

Short summary

We present an inherently calibrated retrieval to measure aerosol optical depth (AOD) and the aerosol phase function parameter, g, based on measurements of azimuth distributions of the Raman scattering probability (RSP), the near-absolute rotational Raman scattering (RRS) intensity by the University of Colorado two-dimensional (2-D) MAX-DOAS. The retrievals are maximally sensitive at low AOD and do not require absolute radiance calibration. We compare results with data from independent sensors.