Retrieval of atmospheric particles optical properties by combining ground-based and spaceborne lidar elastic scattering profiles | Zendy

Xuan Wang | Zendy; M. G. Frontoso | Zendy; Gianluca Pisani | Zendy; Nicola Spinelli | Zendy

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Retrieval of atmospheric particles optical properties by combining ground-based and spaceborne lidar elastic scattering profiles

Author(s) -

Xuan Wang,

M. G. Frontoso,

Gianluca Pisani,

Nicola Spinelli

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

optics express

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394

H-Index - 271

ISSN - 1094-4087

DOI - 10.1364/oe.15.006734

Subject(s) - lidar , atmospheric optics , remote sensing , aerosol , optics , wavelength , scattering , diffuse sky radiation , a priori and a posteriori , optical depth , extinction (optical mineralogy) , atmosphere (unit) , atmospheric model , physics , environmental science , meteorology , geology , philosophy , epistemology

A simple algorithm is derived to retrieve the aerosol backscattering and extinction vertical profiles from simultaneously detected ground and space elastic lidar signals, without any a priori hypothesis on aerosol particles properties. This technique can be applied at any wavelength whenever two "counter looking" lidars are available and the atmosphere can be considered horizontally homogeneous in a spatial scale of the order of the distance between the two lidar beams. To test the accuracy of the algorithm a numerical simulation has been performed. Moreover, it has been applied in a real case to level 1 products from CALIPSO.

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