This study identified the relationship between the layer-integrated attenuated backscatter coefficient and layer-integrated depolarization ratio of dust plumes and compared it with that of cloud, using CALIPSO LIDAR measurements. The histogram distribution of the integrated color ratio for dust and cloud was also examined. On the basis of the layer-integrated attenuated backscatter coefficient ...

Global satellite observations of lidar backscatter measurements acquired by the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) mission and collocated sea surface wind speed data from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for the Earth Observing System (AMSR-E), are used to investigate the relation between wind driven wave slope variance and sea surface wind spe...

This manuscript presents analysis of measurements and modeling of vertical distributions of aerosols during post El-Nino fire season. There is no doubt that vertical distributions of aerosols are of great importance and large uncertainties exist due to lack of measurements and thus poorly constrained model results. The authors claim that their results are significantly different from other prev...

This manuscript presents analysis of measurements and modeling of vertical distributions of aerosols during post El-Nino fire season. There is no doubt that vertical distributions of aerosols are of great importance and large uncertainties exist due to lack of measurements and thus poorly constrained model results. The authors claim that their results are significantly different from other prev...

Abstract. We assess the CALIPSO Version 4.2 (V4) aerosol typing and assigned lidar ratios over ocean using optical depth (AOD) retrievals from Synergized Optical Depth of Aerosols (SODA) algorithm retrieved columnar ratio estimated by combining SODA AOD attenuated backscatter (CALIPSO–SODA). Six types – clean marine, dusty dust, polluted continental/smoke, elevated smoke are characterized CALIP...

1. The author should highlights why CALIPSO data are used in this study? Since there are some studies indicate that the CALIPSO derived above-cloud AOD are lower than other satellites sensors in the A-Train. 2. Do you consider the multilayer cloud with the existence of aerosols in this study? For example, aerosols above lower layer clouds but below the upper layer clouds? 3. When you calculate ...

Two different cloud climatologies have been derived from the same NASA–Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP)-measured attenuated backscattered profile (level 1, version 3 dataset). The first climatology, named Cloud–Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations–Science Team (CALIPSO-ST), is based on the standard CALIOP cloud mask (level 2 product, version 3), ...

[1] We determine the extinction‐to‐backscatter (Sa) ratios of dust using (1) airborne in situ measurements of microphysical properties, (2) modeling studies, and (3) the Cloud‐Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) observations recorded during the NASA African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses (NAMMA) field experiment conducted from Sal, Cape Verde during August...