Aerosol above-cloud direct radiative effect and properties in the Namibian region during the AErosol, RadiatiOn, and CLOuds in southern Africa (AEROCLO-sA) field campaign – Multi-Viewing, Multi-Channel, Multi-Polarization (3MI) airborne simulator and sun photometer measurements

Chauvigné, Aurélien; Waquet, Fabien; Auriol, Frédérique; Blarel, Luc; Delegove, Cyril; Dubovik, Oleg; Flamant, Cyrille; Gaetani, Marco; Goloub, Philippe; Loisil, Rodrigue; Mallet, Marc; Nicolas, Jean-Marc; Parol, Frédéric; Peers, Fanny; Torres, Benjamin; Formenti, Paola

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-8233-2021

Articles | Volume 21, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-8233-2021

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28 May 2021

Research article |

| 28 May 2021

Aerosol above-cloud direct radiative effect and properties in the Namibian region during the AErosol, RadiatiOn, and CLOuds in southern Africa (AEROCLO-sA) field campaign – Multi-Viewing, Multi-Channel, Multi-Polarization (3MI) airborne simulator and sun photometer measurements

Aurélien Chauvigné, Fabien Waquet, Frédérique Auriol, Luc Blarel, Cyril Delegove, Oleg Dubovik, Cyrille Flamant, Marco Gaetani, Philippe Goloub, Rodrigue Loisil, Marc Mallet, Jean-Marc Nicolas, Frédéric Parol, Fanny Peers, Benjamin Torres, and Paola Formenti

Data sets

AEROCLO-sA F20 OSIRIS L2 Fabien Waquet and Aurélien Chauvigné https://doi.org/10.6096/AEROCLO.1802

AEROCLO-sA F20 Lidar LNG aerosols Cyrille Flamant https://doi.org/10.6096/AEROCLO.1774

AEROCLO-sA F20 PLASMA2 Luc Blarel https://doi.org/10.6096/AEROCLO.1807

Short summary

This work presents aerosol above-cloud properties close to the Namibian coast from a combination of airborne passive remote sensing. The complete analysis of aerosol and cloud optical properties and their microphysical and radiative properties allows us to better identify the impacts of biomass burning emissions. This work also gives a complete overview of the key parameters for constraining climate models in case aerosol and cloud coexist in the troposphere.