Year-round stratospheric aerosol backscatter ratios calculated from lidar measurements above northern Norway

• Published in: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
• Main Authors: Langenbach, Arvid, Baumgarten, Gerd, Fiedler, Jens, Lübken, Franz-Josef, Savigny, Christian, Zalach, Jacob
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Alomar; Arctic; Norway; Northern Norway
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-4065-2019; https://amt.copernicus.org/articles/12/4065/2019/

We present a new method for calculating backscatter ratios of the stratospheric sulfate aerosol (SSA) layer from daytime and nighttime lidar measurements. Using this new method we show a first year-round dataset of stratospheric aerosol backscatter ratios at high latitudes. The SSA layer is located...