Marine and biomass burning aerosols in the southern Indian Ocean: Retrieval of aerosol optical properties from shipborne lidar and Sun photometer measurements

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 18, 2011, Pages

  Duflot, V ^a   Royer, P ^b,c   Chazette, P ^b   Baray, J L ^a   Courcoux, Y ^a   Delmas, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA RÉUNION   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^c Leosphere   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; BACKSCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LIGHT EXTINCTION; OPTICAL RADAR; PHOTOMETERS; PHOTOMETRY; SEA LEVEL; SHIPS;

ABOVE MEAN SEA LEVEL (AMSL); AEROSOL EXTINCTION; AEROSOL LAYERS; AEROSOL OPTICAL PROPERTY; AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS; AEROSOL PLUME; BIOMASS-BURNING; DATA SETS; EXTINCTION-TO-BACKSCATTER RATIO; FIRE PLUME; INTEGRATED VALUES; LAGRANGIAN MODELS; LIDAR RATIO; LIDAR SIGNALS; MADAGASCAR; MARINE AEROSOLS; REAL TIME; RESEARCH VESSELS; SHIPBORNE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN INDIAN OCEAN; SUN PHOTOMETERS; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; VERTICAL EXTENSION; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; DATA SET; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; LIDAR; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; PHOTOMETER; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

FRENCH SOUTHERN TERRITORIES; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (SOUTH); KERGUELEN; KERGUELEN ISLANDS;

EID: 80053311372     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD015839     Document Type: Article

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