Studying the vertical aerosol extinction coefficient by comparing in situ airborne data and elastic backscatter lidar

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 4539-4554

  Rosati, Bernadette ^a   Herrmann, Erik ^a   Bucci, Silvia ^b   Fierli, Federico ^b   Cairo, Francesco ^b   Gysel, Martin ^a   Tillmann, Ralf ^c   Größ, Johannes ^d   Paolo Gobbi, Gian ^b   Di Liberto, Luca ^b   Di Donfrancesco, Guido ^e   Wiedensohler, Alfred ^d   Weingartner, Ernest ^a,g   Virtanen, Annele ^f   F Mentel, Thomas ^c   Baltensperger, Urs ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e ENEA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS NORTHWESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AIRBORNE SURVEY; BACKSCATTER; BOUNDARY LAYER; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LIDAR; PARTICLE SIZE; SATELLITE DATA;

ITALY; PO VALLEY;

EID: 84966376859     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-16-4539-2016     Document Type: Article

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