Characterization of Extremely Fresh Biomass Burning Aerosol by Means of Lidar Observations

Autor: Benedetto De Rosa, Francesco Amato, Aldo Amodeo, Giuseppe D’Amico, Claudio Dema, Alfredo Falconieri, Aldo Giunta, Pilar Gumà-Claramunt, Anna Kampouri, Stavros Solomos, Michail Mytilinaios, Nikolaos Papagiannopoulos, Donato Summa, Igor Veselovskii, Lucia Mona
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Remote Sensing, Vol 14, Iss 19, p 4984 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2072-4292
DOI: 10.3390/rs14194984
Popis: In this paper, characterization of the optical and microphysical properties of extremely fresh biomass burning aerosol is presented. This work aims to characterize, for the first time to our knowledge, freshly formed smoke particles observed only a few minutes after they were emitted from a nearby forest fire. The smoke particles were detected by combining passive (sun-photometer) and active (Raman lidar) techniques. On 14 August 2021, an EARLINET (European Aerosol Research Lidar Network) multi-wavelength Raman lidar and a co-located AERONET sun-photometer in Potenza, South Italy, observed an extremely fresh smoke plume. The lidar measurements, carried out from 22:27 to 02:16 UTC, revealed a thick biomass burning layer below 2.7 km. The particle depolarization ratio at 532 nm was 0.025, and lidar ratios at 355 and 532 nm were, respectively, 40 and 38 sr. The mean value of the Ångström exponent was 1.5. The derived size distribution was bimodal with a peak at 0.13 µm, an effective radius mean value of 0.15 µm, and a single scattering albedo of 0.96 at all wavelengths. The real part of the refractive index was 1.58 and the imaginary was 0.006. The AERONET measurements at 5:34 UTC confirmed the lidar measurements.
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