Validation of aerosol backscatter profiles from Raman lidar and ceilometer using balloon-borne measurements

Brunamonti, Simone; Martucci, Giovanni; Romanens, Gonzague; Poltera, Yann; Wienhold, Frank G.; Hervo, Maxime; Haefele, Alexander; Navas-Guzmán, Francisco

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-2267-2021

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16 Feb 2021

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| 16 Feb 2021

Validation of aerosol backscatter profiles from Raman lidar and ceilometer using balloon-borne measurements

Simone Brunamonti, Giovanni Martucci, Gonzague Romanens, Yann Poltera, Frank G. Wienhold, Maxime Hervo, Alexander Haefele, and Francisco Navas-Guzmán

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Lidar (light detection and ranging) is a class of remote-sensing instruments that are widely used for the monitoring of aerosol properties in the lower levels of the atmosphere, yet their measurements are affected by several sources of uncertainty. Here we present the first comparison of two lidar systems against a fully independent instrument carried by meteorological balloons. We show that both lidars achieve a good agreement with the high-precision balloon measurements up to 6 km altitude.