https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201817605014
Triple-wavelength lidar observations of the linear depolarization ratio of dried marine particles
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Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), Germany
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Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Austria
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Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH), Barbados
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now at: Finnish Meteorological Institute, Kuopio, Finland
Published online: 13 April 2018
For aerosol typing with lidar, sea salt particles are usually assumed to be spherical with a consequently low depolarization ratio. Evidence of dried marine particles at the top of the humid marine aerosol layer with a depolarization ratio up to 0.1 has been found at predominately maritime locations on Barbados and in the Southern Atlantic. The depolarization ratio for these probably cubic sea salt particles has been measured at three wavelengths (355, 532 and 1064 nm) simultaneously for the first time and compared to model simulations.
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