https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611904007
Utilizing The Synergy of Airborne Backscatter Lidar and In-Situ Measurements for Evaluating CALIPSO
1 IAASARS, National Observatory of Athens, Athens, Greece
2 Observational Based Research, Met Office, Exeter, UK
3 School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
4 School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
* Email: atsekeri@noa.gr
Published online: 7 June 2016
Airborne campaigns dedicated to satellite validation are crucial for the effective global aerosol monitoring. CALIPSO is currently the only active remote sensing satellite mission, acquiring the vertical profiles of the aerosol backscatter and extinction coefficients. Here we present a method for CALIPSO evaluation from combining lidar and in-situ airborne measurements. The limitations of the method have to do mainly with the in-situ instrumentation capabilities and the hydration modelling. We also discuss the future implementation of our method in the ICE-D campaign (Cape Verde, August 2015).
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