| Issue |
EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 119, 2016
The 27th International Laser Radar Conference (ILRC 27)
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| Article Number | 11001 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Lidar Cloud Studies | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611911001 | |
| Published online | 07 June 2016 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611911001
Cloud-Aerosol Interactions: Retrieving Aerosol Ångström Exponents from Calipso Measurements of Opaque Water Clouds
1 NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23681, USA
2 Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI), Hampton, VA 23666, USA
* Email: mark.a.vaughan@nasa.gov
Published online: 7 June 2016
Backscatter and extinction from water clouds are well-understood, both theoretically and experimentally, and thus changes to the expected measurement of layer-integrated attenuated backscatter can be used to infer the optical properties of overlying layers. In this paper we offer a first look at a new retrieval technique that uses CALIPSO measurements of opaque water clouds to derive optical depths and Ångström exponents for overlying aerosol layers.
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