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EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 119, 2016
The 27th International Laser Radar Conference (ILRC 27)
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| Article Number | 08003 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Poster Session (Aerosol Observations and Retrievals I) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611908003 | |
| Published online | 07 June 2016 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611908003
Study of African Dust with Multi-Wavelength Raman Lidar During “Shadow” Campaign in Senegal
1 Physics Instrumentation Center, Troitsk, Moscow Region, 142190, Russia
2 Laboratoire d’Optique Atmosphérie, Université de Lille-CNRS, 59650, Villeneuve d’Ascq
E-mail: igorv@pic.troitsk.ru
Published online: 7 June 2016
West Africa and the adjacent oceanic regions are very important locations for studying dust properties and their influence on weather and climate. The SHADOW (Study of SaHAran Dust Over West Africa) campaign is performing a multi-scale and multi-laboratory study of aerosol properties and dynamics using a set of in situ and remote sensing instruments at an observation site located at IRD (Institute for Research and Development) Center, Mbour, Senegal (14°N, 17°W). In this paper, we present the results of lidar measurements performed during the first phase of SHADOW which occurred in March-April, 2015. The multiwavelength Mie-Raman lidar acquired 3β+2α+1δ measurements during this period. This set of measurements has permitted particle intensive properties such as extinction and backscattering Ångström exponents (BAE) for 355/532 nm wavelengths corresponding lidar ratios and depolarization ratio at 532 nm to be determined. The backscattering Ångström exponent during the dust episodes decreased to ~-0.7, while the extinction Ångström exponent though being negative, was greater than -0.2. Low values of BAE can likely be explained by an increase in the imaginary part of the dust refractive index at 355 nm compared to 532 nm.
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