Airborne lidar measurements of aerosol and ozone above the Canadian oil sands region

Autor: M. Aggarwal, J. Whiteway, J. Seabrook, L. Gray, K. Strawbridge, P. Liu, J. O'Brien, S.-M. Li, R. McLaren
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, Vol 11, Pp 3829-3849 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1867-1381
1867-8548
DOI: 10.5194/amt-11-3829-2018
Popis: Aircraft-based lidar measurements of atmospheric aerosol and ozone were conducted to study air pollution from the oil sands extraction industry in northern Alberta. Significant amounts of aerosol were observed in the polluted air within the surface boundary layer, up to heights of 1 to 1.6 km above ground. The ozone mixing ratio measured in the polluted boundary layer air directly above the oil sands industry was equal to or less than the background ozone mixing ratio. On one of the flights, the lidar measurements detected a layer of forest fire smoke above the surface boundary layer in which the ozone mixing ratio was substantially greater than the background. Measurements of the linear depolarization ratio in the aerosol backscatter were obtained with a ground-based lidar and this aided in the discrimination between the separate emission sources from industry and forest fires. The retrieval of ozone abundance from the lidar measurements required the development of a method to account for the interference from the substantial aerosol content within the polluted boundary layer.
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