TY - JOUR A1 - Samaras, Stefanos A1 - Nicolae, Doina A1 - Böckmann, Christine A1 - Vasilescu, Jeni A1 - Binietoglou, Ioannis A1 - Labzovskii, Lev A1 - Toanca, Florica A1 - Papayannis, Alexandros T1 - Using Raman-lidar-based regularized microphysical retrievals and Aerosol Mass Spectrometer measurements for the characterization of biomass burning aerosols JF - Journal of computational physics N2 - In this work we extract the microphysical properties of aerosols for a collection of measurement cases with low volume depolarization ratio originating from fire sources captured by the Raman lidar located at the National Institute of Optoelectronics (INOE) in Bucharest. Our algorithm was tested not only for pure smoke but also for mixed smoke and urban aerosols of variable age and growth. Applying a sensitivity analysis on initial parameter settings of our retrieval code was proved vital for producing semi-automatized retrievals with a hybrid regularization method developed at the Institute of Mathematics of Potsdam University. A direct quantitative comparison of the retrieved microphysical properties with measurements from a Compact Time of Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometer (CToF-AMS) is used to validate our algorithm. Microphysical retrievals performed with sun photometer data are also used to explore our results. Focusing on the fine mode we observed remarkable similarities between the retrieved size distribution and the one measured by the AMS. More complicated atmospheric structures and the factor of absorption appear to depend more on particle radius being subject to variation. A good correlation was found between the aerosol effective radius and particle age, using the ratio of lidar ratios (LR: aerosol extinction to backscatter ratios) as an indicator for the latter. Finally, the dependence on relative humidity of aerosol effective radii measured on the ground and within the layers aloft show similar patterns. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. KW - Aerosols KW - Microphysical properties KW - Lidar KW - AMS KW - AERONET Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2015.06.045 SN - 0021-9991 SN - 1090-2716 VL - 299 SP - 156 EP - 174 PB - Elsevier CY - San Diego ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hoffmann, Anne A1 - Osterloh, Lukas A1 - Stone, Robert A1 - Lampert, Astrid A1 - Ritter, Christoph A1 - Stock, Maria A1 - Tunved, Peter A1 - Hennig, Tabea A1 - Böckmann, Christine A1 - Li, Shao-Meng A1 - Eleftheriadis, Kostas A1 - Maturilli, Marion A1 - Orgis, Thomas A1 - Herber, Andreas A1 - Neuber, Roland A1 - Dethloff, Klaus T1 - Remote sensing and in-situ measurements of tropospheric aerosol, a PAMARCMiP case study JF - Atmospheric environment : air pollution ; emissions, transport and dispersion, transformation, deposition effects, micrometeorology, urban atmosphere, global atmosphere N2 - In this work, a closure experiment for tropospheric aerosol is presented. Aerosol size distributions and single scattering albedo from remote sensing data are compared to those measured in-situ. An aerosol pollution event on 4 April 2009 was observed by ground based and airborne lidar and photometer in and around Ny-Alesund, Spitsbergen, as well as by DMPS, nephelometer and particle soot absorption photometer at the nearby Zeppelin Mountain Research Station. The presented measurements were conducted in an area of 40 x 20 km around Ny-Alesund as part of the 2009 Polar Airborne Measurements and Arctic Regional Climate Model Simulation Project (PAMARCMiP). Aerosol mainly in the accumulation mode was found in the lower troposphere, however, enhanced backscattering was observed up to the tropopause altitude. A comparison of meteorological data available at different locations reveals a stable multi-layer-structure of the lower troposphere. It is followed by the retrieval of optical and microphysical aerosol parameters. Extinction values have been derived using two different methods, and it was found that extinction (especially in the UV) derived from Raman lidar data significantly surpasses the extinction derived from photometer AOD profiles. Airborne lidar data shows volume depolarization values to be less than 2.5% between 500 m and 2.5 km altitude, hence, particles in this range can be assumed to be of spherical shape. In-situ particle number concentrations measured at the Zeppelin Mountain Research Station at 474 m altitude peak at about 0.18 mu m diameter, which was also found for the microphysical inversion calculations performed at 850 m and 1500 m altitude. Number concentrations depend on the assumed extinction values, and slightly decrease with altitude as well as the effective particle diameter. A low imaginary part in the derived refractive index suggests weakly absorbing aerosols, which is confirmed by low black carbon concentrations, measured at the Zeppelin Mountain as well as on board the Polar 5 aircraft. KW - Arctic KW - Aerosols KW - Lidar KW - Arctic haze Y1 - 2012 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.11.027 SN - 1352-2310 VL - 52 IS - 3 SP - 56 EP - 66 PB - Elsevier CY - Oxford ER -