https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611904008
A method for determination of cirrus extinction-to-backscatter ratio from CALIOP data
1 Physics Department, Qufu Normal University, Qufu City 273165, Shandong Province, P. R. China
2 Department of Physics, National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan 32054
* Email: jingbin_zhang@163.com
Published online: 7 June 2016
We are presenting an empirical equation to retrieve cirrus lidar ratio by using CALIOP 532 nm level 1 data for nighttime cases. Retrieval results have non-relationship with cirrus multiple scattering effects and not affected by the error of transmission. The average CALIPSO 532 nm cirrus lidar ratio over Longitude 120+/- 10 and Latitude 25+/-10 for whole year of 2008 are 21.66±0.06sr for the year of 2008 respectively, with the maximum bias of 9.25% for the year 2008, the results is fairly stable and reasonable.
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