Raman lidar observations of a Saharan dust outbreak event: Characterization of the dust optical properties and determination of particle size and microphysical parameters

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 50, Issue , 2012, Pages 66-78

  Di Girolamo, Paolo ^a   Summa, Donato ^a   Bhawar, Rohini ^a   Di Iorio, Tatiana ^b   Cacciani, Marco ^b   Veselovskii, Igor ^c   Dubovik, Oleg ^d   Kolgotin, Alexey ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

^c Physics Instrumentation Center   (Russian Federation)

^d Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille   (France)

Author keywords

COPS; Microphysics; Raman lidar; Saharan dust; Spheroids

Indexed keywords

COPS; MICROPHYSICS; RAMAN LIDAR; SAHARAN DUST; SPHEROIDS;

BACKSCATTERING; OPTICAL RADAR; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

DUST;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; ALGORITHM; ALTITUDE; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BACKSCATTER; DUST; LIDAR; OROGRAPHY; PARTICLE SIZE; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; VOLUME; WAVELENGTH;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; DUST AND DUST RELATED PHENOMENA; DUST EXPOSURE; LASER; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN LIDAR; SURFACE PROPERTY; WESTERN SAHARA; WETTABILITY;

ACHERN; BADEN-WURTTEMBERG; GERMANY;

EID: 84856700250     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.12.061     Document Type: Article

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