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Research article
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22 Nov 2016
Research article |
| 22 Nov 2016
Information content and sensitivity of the 3β + 2α lidar measurement system for aerosol microphysical retrievals
Sharon P. Burton
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
Eduard Chemyakin
Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA, USA
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
Kirk Knobelspiesse
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Snorre Stamnes
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
Patricia Sawamura
Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD, USA
Richard H. Moore
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
Chris A. Hostetler
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
Richard A. Ferrare
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
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Short summary
Retrievals of aerosol microphysics exist for ground-based, airborne, and future space-borne lidar measurements. We investigate the information content of a lidar measurement system, using only a forward model but no explicit inversion. The simplified aerosol used here is applicable as a best case for all retrievals in the absence of additional constraints. We report (1) information content of the measurements; (2) uncertainties on the retrieved parameters; and (3) sources of compensating errors.
Retrievals of aerosol microphysics exist for ground-based, airborne, and future space-borne...
