Variability in lidar-derived particle properties over West Africa due to changes in absorption: towards an understanding

Veselovskii, Igor; Hu, Qiaoyun; Goloub, Philippe; Podvin, Thierry; Korenskiy, Mikhail; Derimian, Yevgeny; Legrand, Michel; Castellanos, Patricia

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-6563-2020

Articles | Volume 20, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-6563-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-6563-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 20, issue 11

Research article

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05 Jun 2020

Research article |

| 05 Jun 2020

Variability in lidar-derived particle properties over West Africa due to changes in absorption: towards an understanding

Igor Veselovskii, Qiaoyun Hu, Philippe Goloub, Thierry Podvin, Mikhail Korenskiy, Yevgeny Derimian, Michel Legrand, and Patricia Castellanos

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RC1: 'Review of Variability of Lidar-Derived Particle Properties Over West Africa Due to Changes in Absorption: Towards an Understanding', Anonymous Referee #3, 18 Mar 2020
- AC4: 'Response to Referee #3', Igor Veselovskii, 22 Apr 2020
RC2: 'Review to 'Variability of Lidar-Derived Particle Properties Over West Africa Due to Changes in Absorption: Towards an Understanding'', Anonymous Referee #4, 31 Mar 2020
- AC3: 'Response to Referee #4', Igor Veselovskii, 22 Apr 2020
RC3: 'ACP-2020-98', Anonymous Referee #1, 01 Apr 2020
- AC2: 'Response to Referee #1', Igor Veselovskii, 22 Apr 2020
RC4: 'review', Anonymous Referee #2, 15 Apr 2020
- AC1: 'Response to referee 2', Igor Veselovskii, 22 Apr 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Igor Veselovskii on behalf of the Authors (22 Apr 2020) Author's response

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (30 Apr 2020) by Matthias Tesche

AR by Igor Veselovskii on behalf of the Authors (06 May 2020) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

Atmospheric dust has a significant impact on the Earth's climate system, and this impact remains highly uncertain. The desert dust is always a mixture of various minerals, and the imaginary part of the complex refractive index often exhibits an increase in UV for dust containing iron oxides. Our results demonstrate that multiwavelength Raman lidar measurements allow for the characterization of the spectral dependence of the imaginary part of dust.