First validation of GOME-2/MetOp Absorbing Aerosol Height using EARLINET lidar observations

doi:10.5194/acp-2020-601

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DOI	10.5194/acp-2020-601
	First validation of GOME-2/MetOp Absorbing Aerosol Height using EARLINET lidar observations
	Konstantinos Michailidis, Maria-Elissavet Koukouli, Nikolaos Siomos, Dimitrios Balis, Olaf Tuinder, L. Gijsbert Tilstra, Lucia Mona, Gelsomina Pappalardo, and Daniele Bortoli
	2020-07-08
发表期刊	Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
出版年	2020
英文摘要	The aim of this study is to investigate the potential of GOME-2 instruments on board the MetOpA, MetOpB and MetOpC platforms, to deliver accurate geometrical features of lofted aerosol layers. For this purpose, we use archived ground-based lidar data from lidar stations available fromEuropean Aerosol Research Lidar Network (EARLINET) database. The data are post-processed with the wavelet covariance transform (WCT) method in order to extract geometrical features such as the Planetary Boundary Layer, PBL, height and the cloud boundaries. To obtain a significant number of collocated and coincident GOME-2 – EARLINET cases for the period between January 2007 and September 2019, fourteenlidar stations, distributed over different European latitudes, contributed to this validation. For the 172 carefully screened collocations, the mean bias was found to be −0.18 ± 1.68 km, with a near Gaussian distribution. On a station-basis, and with a couple of exceptions where very few collocations were found, their mean biases fall in the ± 1 km range with an associated standard deviation between 0.5 and 1.5 km. Considering the differences, mainly due to the temporal collocation and the difference between the satellite pixel size and the point view of the ground-based observations, these results are quite promising and demonstrating that stable and extended aerosol layers as captured by the satellite sensors, are verified by the ground-based data. We further present an in-depth analysis of a strong and long-lasting Saharan dust intrusion over the Iberian Peninsula. We show that for, this well-developed and spatially well-spread aerosol layer, most GOME-2 retrievals fall within 1 km of the exactly temporally collocated lidar observation for the entire range of 0 to 150 km radii. This finding further testifies to the capabilities of the MetOp-born instruments to sense the atmospheric aerosol layer height.
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推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Konstantinos Michailidis, Maria-Elissavet Koukouli, Nikolaos Siomos, Dimitrios Balis, Olaf Tuinder, L. Gijsbert Tilstra, Lucia Mona, Gelsomina Pappalardo, and Daniele Bortoli. First validation of GOME-2/MetOp Absorbing Aerosol Height using EARLINET lidar observations[J]. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics,2020.
APA	Konstantinos Michailidis, Maria-Elissavet Koukouli, Nikolaos Siomos, Dimitrios Balis, Olaf Tuinder, L. Gijsbert Tilstra, Lucia Mona, Gelsomina Pappalardo, and Daniele Bortoli.(2020).First validation of GOME-2/MetOp Absorbing Aerosol Height using EARLINET lidar observations.Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
MLA	Konstantinos Michailidis, Maria-Elissavet Koukouli, Nikolaos Siomos, Dimitrios Balis, Olaf Tuinder, L. Gijsbert Tilstra, Lucia Mona, Gelsomina Pappalardo, and Daniele Bortoli."First validation of GOME-2/MetOp Absorbing Aerosol Height using EARLINET lidar observations".Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (2020).