Improvement of Aerosol Coarse-Mode Detection through Additional Use of Infrared Wavelengths in the Inversion of Arctic Lidar Data


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An Nd:YAG-based Raman lidar provides a mature technology to derive profiles of the optical properties of aerosols over a wide altitude range. However, the derivation of micro-physical parameters is an ill-posed problem. Hence, increasing the information content of lidar data is desirable. Recently, ceilometers and wind lidar systems, both operating in the near-infrared region, have been successfully employed in aerosol research. In this study, we demonstrate that the inclusion of additional backscatter coefficients from these two latter instruments clearly improves the inversion of micro-physical parameters such as volume distribution function, effective radius, or single-scattering albedo. We focus on the Arctic aerosol and start with the typical volume distribution functions of Arctic haze and boreal biomass burning. We forward calculate the optical coefficients that the lidar systems should have seen and include or exclude the backscatter coefficients of the ceilometer (910 nm) and wind lidar data (1500 nm) to analyze the value of these wavelengths in their ability to reproduce the volume distribution function, which may be mono- or bimodal. We found that not only the coarse mode but also the properties of the accumulation mode improved when the additional wavelengths were considered. Generally, the 1500 nm wavelength has greater value in correctly reproducing the aerosol properties



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DOI 10.3390/rs16091576

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Böckmann, C. , Ritter, C. and Graßl, S. (2024): Improvement of Aerosol Coarse-Mode Detection through Additional Use of Infrared Wavelengths in the Inversion of Arctic Lidar Data , Remote Sensing, 16 (9), p. 1576 . doi: 10.3390/rs16091576


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