CALIPSO-AERONET Combined Application for Weather and Climate Research

Author

Wei Gong ; Yingying Ma ; Zhongmin Zhu ; Pingxiang Li ; Shalei Song ; Mengyu Liu ; Zhongyu Hao

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Inf. Eng. in Surveying, Wuhan

fYear

2007

fDate

23-28 July 2007

Firstpage

3166

Lastpage

3169

Abstract

In this paper, a new method is proposed, which combine CALIPSO lidar data with AERONET data to acquire the unstable aerosol information in Taiwan. First, introduce a CALIPSO retrieval arithmetic to obtain the aerosol optical depth, and then compare the differences between CALIPSO and AERONET. By combining these two techniques we could not only have the precise site data from AERONET, but also own the change information of aerosol in southeast China from CALIPSO. Different from AERONET, we can also display the spatial properties of aerosol from CALIPSO lidar backscatter data, such as, the strength of aerosol in each layer and their change with time in the aerosphere.

Keywords

aerosols; atmospheric optics; atmospheric techniques; climatology; meteorology; optical radar; remote sensing by laser beam; AERONET data; CALIPSO lidar backscatter data; CALIPSO retrieval arithmetic; Taiwan; aerosol optical depth; climate research; southeast China; weather research; Aerosols; Backscatter; Biomedical optical imaging; Clouds; High speed optical techniques; Instruments; Laser radar; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Space technology; AERONET; Aerosol Optical Depth; CALIPSO; Lidar; Sunphotometer;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2007. IGARSS 2007. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1211-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1212-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423517

Filename

4423517