High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL) and MPLNET Micro Pulse Lidar (MPL) aerosol optical property retrieval intercomparison during the 2012 7-SEAS field campaign at Singapore

Simone Lolli; Ellsworth J. Welton; James R. Campbell; Edwin Eloranta; Brent N. Holben; Boom Ning Chew; Santo V. Salinas

doi:10.1117/12.2067812

20 October 2014 High Spectral Resolution Lidar and MPLNET Micro Pulse Lidar aerosol optical property retrieval intercomparison during the 2012 7-SEAS field campaign at Singapore

Simone Lolli, Ellsworth J. Welton, James R. Campbell, Edwin Eloranta, Brent N. Holben, Boom Ning Chew, Santo V. Salinas

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Proceedings Volume 9246, Lidar Technologies, Techniques, and Measurements for Atmospheric Remote Sensing X; 92460C (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2067812
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2014, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

From August 2012 to February 2013 a High Resolution Spectral Lidar (HSRL; 532 nm) was deployed at that National University of Singapore near a NASA Micro Pulse Lidar NETwork (MPLNET; 527 nm) site. A primary objective of the MPLNET lidar project is the production and dissemination of reliable Level 1 measurements and Level 2 retrieval products. This paper characterizes and quantifies error in Level 2 aerosol optical property retrievals conducted through inversion techniques that derive backscattering and extinction coefficients from MPLNET elastic single-wavelength datasets. MPLNET Level 2 retrievals for aerosol optical depth and extinction/backscatter coefficient profiles are compared with corresponding HSRL datasets, for which the instrument collects direct measurements of each using a unique optical configuration that segregates aerosol and cloud backscattered signal from molecular signal. The intercomparison is performed, and error matrices reported, for lower (0-5km) and the upper (>5km) troposphere, respectively, to distinguish uncertainties observed within and above the MPLNET instrument optical overlap regime.

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Simone Lolli, Ellsworth J. Welton, James R. Campbell, Edwin Eloranta, Brent N. Holben, Boom Ning Chew, and Santo V. Salinas "High Spectral Resolution Lidar and MPLNET Micro Pulse Lidar aerosol optical property retrieval intercomparison during the 2012 7-SEAS field campaign at Singapore", Proc. SPIE 9246, Lidar Technologies, Techniques, and Measurements for Atmospheric Remote Sensing X, 92460C (20 October 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2067812

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