Atlantic atmospheric aerosol studies: 2. Compendium of airborne backscatter measurements at 10.6μm
| Autor: | J. M. Vaughan, C. Nash, G. G. Koenig, D. W. Brown, S. B. Alejandro |
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| Rok vydání: | 1995 |
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Atmospheric Science
Ecology Backscatter Paleontology Soil Science Forestry Aquatic Science Oceanography Aerosol Geophysics Lidar Altitude Atmosphere of Earth Space and Planetary Science Geochemistry and Petrology Climatology Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Environmental science Cirrus High incidence Winter season Earth-Surface Processes Water Science and Technology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 100:1043-1065 |
| ISSN: | 0148-0227 |
| DOI: | 10.1029/94jd01817 |
| Popis: | The airborne backscatter measurements at 10.6 {mu}m, from the South Atlantic Backscatter Lidar Experiment (SABLE) and the Global Atmospheric Backscatter Lidar Experiment (GABLE) programs over the Atlantic, are gathered together and presented. Plots of backscatter versus altitude are shown for 80 flight sequences. These data comprising about 4x10{sup 5} measurements from over 180 flight hours are statistically analyzed. The material is distributed in altitude (1 km) and backscatter (half decade) intervals and presented in tabular and histogram form for six principal regions and seasons: South Atlantic summer, South Atlantic winter, far-North Atlantic spring, mid-Atlantic spring/summer, and Northeast Atlantic winter and summer. Several features of the results are discussed, including the incidence of low backscatter and drop-outs and the remarkable high incidence of thin cirrus in the southern tropical winter season. The compendium should provide a climatology of atmospheric backscatter at 10.6 {mu}m for regions of the Atlantic during the relatively clean atmospheric period 1988-1990. 17 refs., 13 figs., 8 tabs. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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