https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202023703006
Characterisation of Biomass Burning Aerosols in the Southern Hemispheric Midlatitudes by Multiwavelength Raman Lidar
1 Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Permoserstraße 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
2 School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
3 Key Laboratory of Geospace Environment and Geodesy, Ministry of Education, Wuhan, China
4 Atmospheric Research Laboratory, University of Magallanes, Punta Arenas, Chile
* Email: floutsi@tropos.de
Published online: 7 July 2020
Vertically resolved multiwavelength aerosol Raman lidar observations were conducted in the pristine environment of the Southern-hemisphere midlatitudes at Punta Arenas, Chile (53.1346°S, 70.8834°W). In contrast to the usually prevailing clean and pristine conditions at this site, two pronounced lofted aerosol layers were observed up to 4.2 and 4.4 km height on 4 and 5 February 2019, respectively. The layers mainly consisted of biomass burning aerosols originating from the region of Central Chile, where wildfires were also observed. Based on spectrally resolved backscatter and extinction coefficients, lidar ratios and depolarization ratio a detailed characterization of the aerosol optical properties is presented.
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