A 10-year characterization of the Saharan Air Layer lidar ratio in the subtropical North Atlantic

Berjón, Alberto; Barreto, Africa; Hernández, Yballa; Yela, Margarita; Toledano, Carlos; Cuevas, Emilio

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-6331-2019

Articles | Volume 19, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-6331-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-6331-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 9

Research article

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15 May 2019

Research article |

| 15 May 2019

A 10-year characterization of the Saharan Air Layer lidar ratio in the subtropical North Atlantic

Alberto Berjón, Africa Barreto, Yballa Hernández, Margarita Yela, Carlos Toledano, and Emilio Cuevas

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RC1: 'Review of the MS: "A 10-year characterization of the Saharan Air Layer lidar ratio in the subtropical North Atlantic"', Anonymous Referee #2, 28 Jan 2019
- AC1: 'Reply to Referee 1', Alberto J. Berjón, 17 Apr 2019
RC2: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #3, 07 Feb 2019
- AC2: 'Reply to Referee 2', Alberto J. Berjón, 17 Apr 2019

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AR by Alberto J. Berjón on behalf of the Authors (17 Apr 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (25 Apr 2019) by Stelios Kazadzis

AR by Alberto J. Berjón on behalf of the Authors (25 Apr 2019)

Short summary

Lidar ratio is a key parameter for the aerosol characterization using satellite remote-sensing platforms as CALIOP. However, there are important differences in the values reported in the bibliography. The geographic characteristics of the IARC observatories location and a 10-year data series allow us to make a unique study of the mineral dust in the Saharan air layer. We report lidar ratios at 523 nm of 49 ± 6 sr and 50 ± 11 sr obtained by two different methods.