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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-2267-2021
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-2267-2021
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Validation of aerosol backscatter profiles from Raman lidar and ceilometer using balloon-borne measurements
Simone Brunamonti
Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology (MeteoSwiss), Payerne, Switzerland
now at: Swiss Federal Laboratory of Material Sciences and Technology (Empa), Laboratory for Air Pollution/ Environmental Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
Giovanni Martucci
Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology (MeteoSwiss), Payerne, Switzerland
Gonzague Romanens
Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology (MeteoSwiss), Payerne, Switzerland
Yann Poltera
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland
Frank G. Wienhold
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland
Maxime Hervo
Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology (MeteoSwiss), Payerne, Switzerland
Alexander Haefele
Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology (MeteoSwiss), Payerne, Switzerland
Francisco Navas-Guzmán
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology (MeteoSwiss), Payerne, Switzerland
Andalusian Institute for Earth System Research, IISTA-CEAMA, University of Granada, Junta de Andalucía, Granada 18006, Spain
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Short summary
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.
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