School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023,
China
Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth
System Sciences & Institute for Climate and Global Change Research,
Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
Xin Lu
State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping, and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China
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Previous studies generally ignored the faint aerosols undetected by the CALIPSO layer detection algorithm because they are too optically thin. Here, we retrieved the faint aerosol extinction based on instantaneous CALIPSO observations with the constraint of SAGE data. The correlation and normalized root-mean-square error of the retrievals with independent SAGE data are 0.66 and 100.6 %, respectively. The minimum retrieved extinction at night can be extended to 10-4 km-1 with 125 % uncertainty.
Previous studies generally ignored the faint aerosols undetected by the CALIPSO layer detection...