Airborne Differential Absorption and High Spectral Resolution Lidar Measurements for Cirrus Cloud Studies

Aerosol and water vapor measurements were performed with the lidar system WALES of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) onboard the German research aircraft G550-HALO during the HALO Techno-Mission in October and November 2010 and during the ML-Cirrus mission in March and April 2014 over Central Europe...

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Published in:EPJ Web of Conferences
Main Authors: Gross Silke, Schaefler Andreas, Wirth Martin, Fix Andreas
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: EDP Sciences 2016
Subjects:
Physics
QC1-999
North Atlantic
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611911003
https://doaj.org/article/769543debe054039acb844251c3830b9
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Summary:Aerosol and water vapor measurements were performed with the lidar system WALES of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) onboard the German research aircraft G550-HALO during the HALO Techno-Mission in October and November 2010 and during the ML-Cirrus mission in March and April 2014 over Central Europe and the North Atlantic region. Curtains composed of lidar profiles beneath the aircraft show the water vapor mixing ratio and the backscatter ratio. Temperature data from ECMWF model analysis are used to calculate the relative humidity above ice (RHi) in the 2-D field along the flight track to study the RHi distribution inside and outside of cirrus clouds at different stages of cloud evolution.

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