EPJ Web of Conferences (Jan 2020)

Retrieval of Dust Microphysical Properties

  • Christine Böckmann,
  • Stefanos Samaras,
  • Moritz Haarig

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202023708019
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 237
p. 08019

Abstract

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An intense mineral dust event from the Saharan desert was observed over the Island of Barbados after a long-range transport over the Atlantic Ocean during SALTRACE Campaign in June 2014. We analyze data from a multi-wavelength Raman-lidar system of Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS) called BERTHA (Back- scatter Extinction lidar Ratio Temperature Humidity profiling Apparatus) to derive the aerosol microphysical properties of the inspected layer via regularization using the software SphInX (Spheroidal Inversion eXperiments). These parameters were found to be within credible ranges.