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Effect of Multiple Scattering in the Lidar Measurement of Tropospheric Aerosol Extinction Profiles

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This paper describes the lidar inversion of the tropospheric aerosol extinction profiles under the influence of multiple-scattering effects for various elevation angles of lidar detection. A single-scattering lidar equation is employed to analyze lidar signals with multiple-scattering contributions that are calculated by the Monte Carlo method for given atmospheric conditions. We calculate errors in the optical thickness from the results with and without multiple-scattering effects. It is found that the errors vary in a range of 2#x2013;18#x0025; according to the optical thickness variation of 0.19#x2013;3.8. The dependence of the error on the field-of-view angle of the lidar observation is also discussed.

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  1. Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University, 1-33, Yayoi, Inage, Chiba, 263-8522, Japan

    Wahyu Widada, Hideki Kinjo, Hiroaki Kuze & Nobuo Takeuchi

  2. Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5, Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba, 277-8582, Japan

    Makoto Sasaki

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Widada, W., Kinjo, H., Kuze, H. et al. Effect of Multiple Scattering in the Lidar Measurement of Tropospheric Aerosol Extinction Profiles. OPT REV 8, 382–387 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10043-001-0382-0

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