Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Variability of aerosol vertical distribution in the Sahel

Abstract. In this work, we have studied the seasonal and inter-annual variability of the aerosol vertical distribution over Sahelian Africa for the years 2006, 2007 and 2008, characterizing the different kind of aerosols present in the atmosphere in terms of their optical properties observed by grou...

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Main Authors: O. Cavalieri, F. Cairo, F. Fierli, G. Di Donfrancesco, M. Snels, M. Viterbini, F. Cardillo, B. Chatenet, P. Formenti, B. Marticorena, J. L. Rajot
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2010
Subjects:
Aerosol Robotic Network
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.461.8358
http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/10/12005/2010/acp-10-12005-2010.pdf
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Summary:Abstract. In this work, we have studied the seasonal and inter-annual variability of the aerosol vertical distribution over Sahelian Africa for the years 2006, 2007 and 2008, characterizing the different kind of aerosols present in the atmosphere in terms of their optical properties observed by ground-based and satellite instruments, and their sources searched for by using trajectory analysis. This study com-bines data acquired by three ground-based micro lidar sys-tems located in Banizoumbou (Niger), Cinzana (Mali) and M’Bour (Senegal) in the framework of the African Mon-soon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA), by the AEROsol RObotic NETwork (AERONET) sun-photometers and by the space-based Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polar-ization (CALIOP) onboard the CALIPSO satellite (Cloud-

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