Tropospheric and stratospheric wildfire smoke profiling with lidar: mass, surface area, CCN, and INP retrieval

Ansmann, Albert; Ohneiser, Kevin; Mamouri, Rodanthi-Elisavet; Knopf, Daniel A.; Veselovskii, Igor; Baars, Holger; Engelmann, Ronny; Foth, Andreas; Jimenez, Cristofer; Seifert, Patric; Barja, Boris

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-9779-2021

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-9779-2021

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29 Jun 2021

Research article |

| 29 Jun 2021

Tropospheric and stratospheric wildfire smoke profiling with lidar: mass, surface area, CCN, and INP retrieval

Albert Ansmann, Kevin Ohneiser, Rodanthi-Elisavet Mamouri, Daniel A. Knopf, Igor Veselovskii, Holger Baars, Ronny Engelmann, Andreas Foth, Cristofer Jimenez, Patric Seifert, and Boris Barja

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RC1: 'review', Anonymous Referee #2, 10 Dec 2020
RC2: 'review of ACPD 1093', Anonymous Referee #1, 19 Jan 2021
AC1: 'reply letter (review #2 and review #1)', Albert Ansmann, 01 Apr 2021
AC2: 'Comment on acp-2020-1093', Albert Ansmann, 01 Apr 2021

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (24 May 2021) by Lucia Mona

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Short summary

We present retrievals of tropospheric and stratospheric height profiles of particle mass, volume, surface area concentration of wildfire smoke layers, and related cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) and ice-nucleating particle (INP) concentrations. The new analysis scheme is applied to ground-based lidar observations of stratospheric Australian smoke over southern South America and to spaceborne lidar observations of tropospheric North American smoke.