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As part of NASA’s PEM-West B (Pacific Exploratory Mission) the NASA DC-8 research aircraft probed the western Pacific troposphere between January and March 1994. It was equipped with a variety of remote and in situ instruments to analyze the air mass transported from the Asian continent into the Pacific troposphere. In this paper we present the aerosol measurements obtained from an IR lidar and two in situ instruments - the forward scattering spectrometer probe (FSSP-300) and the Ames wire impactor. For 11 flights comparisons are made between the aerosol backscattering coefficient (in km−1 sr−1) at 1064 nm calculated from the FSSP size distributions and the IR lidar signal. The two techniques are in good agreement regarding the general features of the regional aerosol climatology. In areas where the in situ measurements consist of very few data points, it is difficult to reconstruct the aerosol climatology on the basis of the point measurements.
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Redemann, J., Turco, R.P., Pueschel, R.F., Browell, E.V., Grant, W.B. (1997). Comparison of Aerosol Measurements by Lidar and In Situ Methods in the Pacific Basin Troposphere. In: Ansmann, A., Neuber, R., Rairoux, P., Wandinger, U. (eds) Advances in Atmospheric Remote Sensing with Lidar. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60612-0_14
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