| タイトル | High Spectral Resolution Lidar and MPLNET Micro Pulse Lidar Aerosol Optical Property Retrieval Intercomparison During the 2012 7-SEAS Field Campaign at Singapore |
| 著者（英） | Lolli, Simone; Holben, Brent N.; Eloranta, Edwin; Welton, Ellsworth J.; Campbell, James R.; Salinas, Santo V.; Chew, Boon Ning |
| 著者所属（英） | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| 発行日 | 2014-09-22 |
| 言語 | eng |
| 内容記述 | 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. |
| NASA分類 | Earth Resources and Remote Sensing; Meteorology and Climatology |
| レポートNO | GSFC-E-DAA-TN32689 |
| 権利 | Copyright |
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