@article{OrtizAmezcuaGuerreroRascadoJoseGranadosMunozetal.2017,
  author    = {Ortiz-Amezcua, Pablo and Guerrero-Rascado, Juan Luis and Jose Granados-Munoz, Maria and Benavent-Oltra, Jose Antonio and B{\"o}ckmann, Christine and Samaras, Stefanos and Stachlewska, Iwona Sylwia and Janicka, Lucja and Baars, Holger and Bohlmann, Stephanie and Alados-Arboledas, Lucas},
  title     = {Microphysical characterization of long-range transported biomass burning particles from North America at three EARLINET stations},
  series = {Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics},
  volume    = {17},
  journal   = {Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics},
  publisher = {Copernicus},
  address   = {G{\"o}ttingen},
  issn      = {1680-7316},
  doi       = {10.5194/acp-17-5931-2017},
  pages     = {5931 -- 5946},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {Strong events of long-range transported biomass burning aerosol were detected during July 2013 at three EARLINET (European Aerosol Research Lidar Network) stations, namely Granada (Spain), Leipzig (Germany) and Warsaw (Poland). Satellite observations from MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) and CALIOP (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization) instruments, as well as modeling tools such as HYSPLIT (Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory) and NAAPS (Navy Aerosol Analysis and Prediction System), have been used to estimate the sources and transport paths of those North American forest fire smoke particles. A multiwavelength Raman lidar technique was applied to obtain vertically resolved particle optical properties, and further inversion of those properties with a regularization algorithm allowed for retrieving microphysical information on the studied particles. The results highlight the presence of smoke layers of 1-2 km thickness, located at about 5 km a.s.l. altitude over Granada and Leipzig and around 2.5 km a.s.l. at Warsaw. These layers were intense, as they accounted for more than 30\% of the total AOD (aerosol optical depth) in all cases, and presented optical and microphysical features typical for different aging degrees: color ratio of lidar ratios (LR532/LR355) around 2, alpha-related angstrom exponents of less than 1, effective radii of 0.3 mu m and large values of single scattering albedos (SSA), nearly spectrally independent. The intensive microphysical properties were compared with columnar retrievals form co-located AERONET (Aerosol Robotic Network) stations. The intensity of the layers was also characterized in terms of particle volume concentration, and then an experimental relationship between this magnitude and the particle extinction coefficient was established.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{SoupionaSamarasOrtizAmezcuaetal.2019,
  author    = {Soupiona, Ourania and Samaras, Stefanos and Ortiz-Amezcua, Pablo and B{\"o}ckmann, Christine and Papayannis, Alexandros D. and Moreira, Gregori De Arruda and Benavent-Oltra, Jose Antonio and Guerrero-Rascado, Juan Luis and Bedoya-Vel{\´a}squez, Andres Esteban and Olmo-Reyes, Francisco Jos{\´e} and Rom{\´a}n, Roberto and Kokkalis, Panagiotis and Mylonaki, Maria and Alados-Arboledas, Lucas and Papanikolaou, Christina Anna and Foskinis, Romanos},
  title     = {Retrieval of optical and microphysical properties of transported Saharan dust over Athens and Granada based on multi-wavelength Raman lidar measurements: Study of the mixing processes},
  series = {Atmospheric environment : air pollution ; emissions, transport and dispersion, transformation, deposition effects, micrometeorology, urban atmosphere, global atmosphere},
  volume    = {214},
  journal   = {Atmospheric environment : air pollution ; emissions, transport and dispersion, transformation, deposition effects, micrometeorology, urban atmosphere, global atmosphere},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  address   = {Oxford},
  issn      = {1352-2310},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.atmosenv.2019.116824},
  pages     = {15},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {In this paper we extract the aerosol microphysical properties for a collection of mineral dust cases measured by multi-wavelength depolarization Raman lidar systems located at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA, Athens, Greece) and the Andalusian Institute for Earth System Research (IISTA-CEAMA, Granada, Spain). The lidar-based retrievals were carried out with the Spheroidal Inversion eXperiments software tool (SphInX) developed at the University of Potsdam (Germany). The software uses regularized inversion of a two-dimensional enhancement of the Mie model based on the spheroid-particle approximation with the aspect ratio determining the particle shape. The selection of the cases was based on the transport time from the source regions to the measuring sites. The aerosol optical depth as measured by AERONET ranged from 0.27 to 0.54 (at 500 nm) depending on the intensity of each event. Our analysis showed the hourly mean particle linear depolarization ratio and particle lidar ratio values at 532 nm ranging from 11 to 34\% and from 42 to 79 sr respectively, depending on the mixing status, the corresponding air mass pathways and their transport time. Cases with shorter transport time showed good agreement in terms of the optical and SphInX-retrieved microphysical properties between Athens and Granada providing a complex refractive index value equal to 1.4 + 0.004i. On the other hand, the results for cases with higher transport time deviated from the aforementioned ones as well as from each other, providing, in particular, an imaginary part of the refractive index ranging from 0.002 to 0.005. Reconstructions of two-dimensional shape-size distributions for each selected layer showed that the dominant effective particle shape was prolate with diverse spherical contributions. The retrieved volume concentrations reflect overall the intensity of the episodes.},
  language  = {en}
}