Retrieving the aerosol lidar ratio profile by combining ground- and space-based elastic lidars |
| |
Authors: | Feiyue Mao Wei Gong Yingying Ma |
| |
Institution: | State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China. |
| |
Abstract: | The aerosol lidar ratio is a key parameter for the retrieval of aerosol optical properties from elastic lidar, which changes largely for aerosols with different chemical and physical properties. We proposed a method for retrieving the aerosol lidar ratio profile by combining simultaneous ground- and space-based elastic lidars. The method was tested by a simulated case and a real case at 532 nm wavelength. The results demonstrated that our method is robust and can obtain accurate lidar ratio and extinction coefficient profiles. Our method can be useful for determining the local and global lidar ratio and validating space-based lidar datasets. |
| |
Keywords: | |
本文献已被 PubMed 等数据库收录! |
|