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

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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

Simone Brunamonti

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7667-443X

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

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3614-1297

Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology (MeteoSwiss), Payerne, Switzerland

Alexander Haefele

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3912-5316

Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology (MeteoSwiss), Payerne, Switzerland

Francisco Navas-Guzmán

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR

francisco.navasguzman@meteoswiss.ch

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0905-4385

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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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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