Assessment of lidar depolarization uncertainty by means of  a polarimetric
lidar simulator

Bravo-Aranda, Juan Antonio; Belegante, Livio; Freudenthaler, Volker; Alados-Arboledas, Lucas; Nicolae, Doina; Granados-Muñoz, María José; Guerrero-Rascado, Juan Luis; Amodeo, Aldo; D'Amico, Giusseppe; Engelmann, Ronny; Pappalardo, Gelsomina; Kokkalis, Panos; Mamouri, Rodanthy; Papayannis, Alex; Navas-Guzmán, Francisco; Olmo, Francisco José; Wandinger, Ulla; Amato, Francesco; Haeffelin, Martial

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4935-2016

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07 Oct 2016

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Assessment of lidar depolarization uncertainty by means of a polarimetric lidar simulator

Juan Antonio Bravo-Aranda, Livio Belegante, Volker Freudenthaler, Lucas Alados-Arboledas, Doina Nicolae, María José Granados-Muñoz, Juan Luis Guerrero-Rascado, Aldo Amodeo, Giusseppe D'Amico, Ronny Engelmann, Gelsomina Pappalardo, Panos Kokkalis, Rodanthy Mamouri, Alex Papayannis, Francisco Navas-Guzmán, Francisco José Olmo, Ulla Wandinger, Francesco Amato, and Martial Haeffelin

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RC1: 'review', Francesco Cairo, 18 Mar 2016
- AC1: 'Reply to Francesco Cairo', Juan Antonio Bravo Aranda, 07 Jul 2016
SC1: 'Short Comment on the manuscript by Bravo-Aranda et al.', Alain Miffre, 06 Apr 2016
- AC3: 'Reply to Alain Miffre', Juan Antonio Bravo Aranda, 07 Jul 2016
RC2: 'Theoretical assessment of the lidar polarizing sensitivity, Bravo-Aranda &al. a review', Anonymous Referee #1, 25 Apr 2016
- AC2: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #1', Juan Antonio Bravo Aranda, 07 Jul 2016

Short summary

This work analyses the lidar polarizing sensitivity by means of the Stokes–Müller formalism and provides a new tool to quantify the systematic error of the volume linear depolarization ration (δ) using the Monte Carlo technique. Results evidence the importance of the lidar polarizing effects which can lead to systematic errors larger than 100 %. Additionally, we demonstrate that a proper lidar characterization helps to reduce the uncertainty.