Air quality impacts from wildfires have been dramatic in recent years, with millions of people
exposed to elevated and sometimes hazardous fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) …

Wildfire is a natural and integral ecosystem process that is necessary to maintain species
composition, structure, and ecosystem function. Extreme fires have been increasing over the …

In 2017, western Canadian wildfires injected smoke into the stratosphere that was
detectable by satellites for more than 8 months. The smoke plume rose from 12 to 23 …

Abstract The Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) is a two-
wavelength polarization lidar that performs global profiling of aerosols and clouds in the …

Aerosols and clouds have important effects on Earth's climate through their effects on the
radiation budget and the cycling of water between the atmosphere and Earth's surface …

Descriptions are provided of the aerosol classification algorithms and the extinction-to-
backscatter ratio (lidar ratio) selection schemes for the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared …

The CALIOP lidar, carried on the CALIPSO satellite, has been acquiring global atmospheric
profiles since June 2006. This dataset now offers the opportunity to characterize the global 3 …

Fully Automated Detection of Cloud and Aerosol Layers in the CALIPSO Lidar
Measurements in: Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology Volume 26 Issue 10 (2009) …

The CALIPSO (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations) level 3
aerosol profile product reports globally gridded, quality-screened, monthly mean aerosol …

This work describes the algorithms used for the fully automated retrieval of profiles of
particulate extinction coefficients from the attenuated backscatter data acquired by the lidar …