Aerosol classification using airborne High Spectral Resolution Lidar measurements – methodology and examples

Abstract. The NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) airborne High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL) on the NASA B200 aircraft has acquired extensive datasets of aerosol extinction (532 nm), aerosol optical depth (AOD) (532 nm), backscatter (532 and 1064 nm), and depolarization (532 and 1064 nm) profiles during 18 field missions that have been conducted over North America since 2006. The lidar measurements of aerosol intensive parameters (lidar ratio, depolarization, backscatter color ratio, and spectral depolarization ratio) are shown to vary with location and aerosol type. A methodology based on observations of known aerosol types is used to qualitatively classify the extensive set of HSRL aerosol measurements…

• NS
  National Science Foundation
• UD
  U.S. Department of Energy
• NA
  National Aeronautics and Space Administration

  Award: DE-AI02-05ER63985
• NO
  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• OO
  Office of Science
• LR
  Langley Research Center
• SM
  Science Mission Directorate
• NH
  NASA Headquarters
• BA
  Biological and Environmental Research