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10 Oct 2018
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A neural network aerosol-typing algorithm based on lidar data
Doina Nicolae
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
National Institute of R&D for Optoelectronics,
409 Atomiştilor Str., Măgurele, Ilfov, Romania
Jeni Vasilescu
National Institute of R&D for Optoelectronics,
409 Atomiştilor Str., Măgurele, Ilfov, Romania
Camelia Talianu
National Institute of R&D for Optoelectronics,
409 Atomiştilor Str., Măgurele, Ilfov, Romania
Institute of Meteorology, University of Natural
Resources and Life Sciences, 33 Gregor-Mendel Str., 1180, Vienna, Austria
Ioannis Binietoglou
National Institute of R&D for Optoelectronics,
409 Atomiştilor Str., Măgurele, Ilfov, Romania
Victor Nicolae
National Institute of R&D for Optoelectronics,
409 Atomiştilor Str., Măgurele, Ilfov, Romania
Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest,
Atomiştilor 405, Măgurele, Ilfov, Romania
Simona Andrei
National Institute of R&D for Optoelectronics,
409 Atomiştilor Str., Măgurele, Ilfov, Romania
Bogdan Antonescu
National Institute of R&D for Optoelectronics,
409 Atomiştilor Str., Măgurele, Ilfov, Romania
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A new aerosol typing algorithm based on artificial neural networks (ANNs) has been developed. The algorithm is providing the most probable aerosol type based on EARLINET LIDAR profiles. The ANNs used by the algorithm were trained using synthetic data, for which a new aerosol model has been developed. Blind tests on EARLINET data samples showed the capability of the algorithm to retrieve the aerosol type from a large variety of data, with different quality and physical content.
A new aerosol typing algorithm based on artificial neural networks (ANNs) has been developed. ...
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