Lidar-Radiometer Inversion Code (LIRIC) for the retrieval of vertical aerosol properties from combined lidar/radiometer data: development and distribution in EARLINET

This paper presents a detailed description of LIRIC (LIdar-Radiometer Inversion Code) algorithm for simultaneous processing of coincident lidar and radiometric (sun photometric) observations for the retrieval of the aerosol concentration vertical profiles. As the lidar/radiometric input data we use...

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Main Authors: A. Chaikovsky, O. Dubovik, B. Holben, A. Bril, P. Goloub, D. Tanré, G. Pappalardo, U. Wandinger, L. Chaikovskaya, S. Denisov, J. Grudo, A. Lopatin, Y. Karol, T. Lapyonok, V. Amiridis, A. Ansmann, A. Apituley, L. Allados-Arboledas, I. Binietoglou, A. Boselli, G. D'Amico, V. Freudenthaler, D. Giles, M. J. Granados-Muñoz, P. Kokkalis, D. Nicolae, S. Oshchepkov, A. Papayannis, M. R. Perrone, A. Pietruczuk, F. Rocadenbosch, M. Sicard, I. Slutsker, C. Talianu, F. De Tomasi, A. Tsekeri, J. Wagner, X. Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2016-03-01
Series:Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
Online Access:http://www.atmos-meas-tech.net/9/1181/2016/amt-9-1181-2016.pdf