Cavalieri O., Di Donfrancesco G., Cairo F., Fierli F., Snels M., Viterbini M., Cardillo F., Chatenet B., Formenti P., Marticorena B., Rajot Jean-Louis. (2011). The AMMA MULID network for aerosol characterization in West Africa. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 32 (19), p. 5485-5504. ISSN 0143-1161.
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The AMMA MULID network for aerosol characterization in West Africa
Cavalieri O., Di Donfrancesco G., Cairo F., Fierli F., Snels M., Viterbini M., Cardillo F., Chatenet B., Formenti P., Marticorena B., Rajot Jean-Louis
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International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2011,
32 (19), p. 5485-5504 ISSN 0143-1161
Three ground-based portable low power consumption micro lidars (MULID) have been built and deployed at three remote sites in Banizoumbou (Niger), Cinzana (Mali) and M'Bour (Senegal) in the framework of the African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses (AMMA) project for the characterization of aerosols optical properties. A description of the instrument and a discussion of the data inversion method, including a careful analysis of measurement uncertainties (systematic and statistical errors), are presented. Some case studies of typical lidar profiles observed over the Banizoumbou site during 2006 are shown and discussed with respect to the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) 7-day back-trajectories and the biomass burning emissions from the Combustion Emission database for the AMMA campaign.
