Reviews and perspectives of high impact atmospheric processes in the Mediterranean

S Michaelides, T Karacostas, JL Sánchez, A Retalis… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - Elsevier
The Mediterranean region is a unique area characterized by a large spectrum of
atmospheric phenomena, some of which have a high impact on many aspects of human …

EARLINET: towards an advanced sustainable European aerosol lidar network

G Pappalardo, A Amodeo, A Apituley… - Atmospheric …, 2014 - amt.copernicus.org
The European Aerosol Research Lidar Network, EARLINET, was founded in 2000 as a
research project for establishing a quantitative, comprehensive, and statistically significant …

Aerosol classification using airborne High Spectral Resolution Lidar measurements–methodology and examples

SP Burton, RA Ferrare, CA Hostetler… - Atmospheric …, 2012 - amt.copernicus.org
The NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) airborne High Spectral Resolution Lidar
(HSRL) on the NASA B200 aircraft has acquired extensive datasets of aerosol extinction …

Lidar measurements for desert dust characterization: an overview

L Mona, Z Liu, D Müller, A Omar… - Advances in …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We provide an overview of light detection and ranging (lidar) capability for describing and
characterizing desert dust. This paper summarizes lidar techniques, observations, and …

Aerosol classification from airborne HSRL and comparisons with the CALIPSO vertical feature mask

SP Burton, RA Ferrare, MA Vaughan… - Atmospheric …, 2013 - amt.copernicus.org
Aerosol classification products from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) airborne
High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL-1) on the NASA B200 aircraft are compared with …

Characterization of Saharan dust, marine aerosols and mixtures of biomass-burning aerosols and dust by means of multi-wavelength depolarization and Raman lidar …

S Groß, M Tesche, V Freudenthaler… - Tellus B: Chemical …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
The particle linear depolarization ratio δp of Saharan dust, marine aerosols and mixtures of
biomass-burning aerosols from southern West Africa and Saharan dust was determined at …

Three-dimensional evolution of Saharan dust transport towards Europe based on a 9-year EARLINET-optimized CALIPSO dataset

E Marinou, V Amiridis, I Binietoglou… - Atmospheric …, 2017 - acp.copernicus.org
In this study we use a new dust product developed using CALIPSO (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar
and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation) observations and EARLINET (European …

Optical properties of long-range transported Saharan dust over Barbados as measured by dual-wavelength depolarization Raman lidar measurements

S Groß, V Freudenthaler, K Schepanski… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - acp.copernicus.org
Dual-wavelength Raman and depolarization lidar observations were performed during the
Saharan Aerosol Long-range Transport and Aerosol-Cloud interaction Experiment in …

Optical and microphysical properties of fresh biomass burning aerosol retrieved by Raman lidar, and star‐and sun‐photometry

L Alados‐Arboledas, D Müller… - Geophysical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
A fresh biomass‐burning pollution plume was monitored and characterized in terms of
optical and microphysical properties for the first time with a combination of Raman lidar and …

[HTML][HTML] Annual exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in urban environments linked to wintertime wood-burning episodes

I Tsiodra, G Grivas, K Tavernaraki… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are organic pollutants in fine particulate matter
(PM) long known to have mutagenic and carcinogenic effects, but much is unknown about …