Cavalieri O. auteur aut IRD Di Donfrancesco G. auteur aut IRD Cairo F. auteur aut IRD Fierli F. auteur aut IRD Snels M. auteur aut IRD Viterbini M. auteur aut IRD Cardillo F. auteur aut IRD Chatenet B. auteur aut IRD Formenti P. auteur aut IRD Marticorena B. auteur aut IRD Rajot Jean-Louis auteur aut IRD text journalArticle eng text/pdf born digital access 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. specialized 126 32 19 5485-5504 2011 0143-1161 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010055703 10.1080/01431161.2010.502156 0143-1161 [F B010055703] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010055703 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2012/04/010055703.pdf Accès réservé (Intranet de l'IRD) IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 2012-05-04 2017-08-23 fdi:010055703 fre