Articles | Volume 22, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-7143-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-7143-2022
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03 Jun 2022
Research article |  | 03 Jun 2022

Evaluation of aerosol number concentrations from CALIPSO with ATom airborne in situ measurements

Goutam Choudhury, Albert Ansmann, and Matthias Tesche

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Lidars provide height-resolved type-specific aerosol properties and are key in studying vertically collocated aerosols and clouds. In this study, we compare the aerosol number concentrations derived from spaceborne lidar with the in situ flight measurements. Our results show a reasonable agreement between both datasets. Such an agreement has not been achieved yet. It shows the potential of spaceborne lidar in studying aerosol–cloud interactions, which is needed to improve our climate forecasts.
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