Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001georl..28.4441t&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 28, Issue 23, p. 4441-4444
Physics
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Atmospheric Composition And Structure, Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Aerosols And Particles, Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Climatology, Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Remote Sensing
Scientific paper
An operational Raman lidar deployed at the DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement site in Oklahoma has collected more than 7500 h of aerosol and water vapor data between April 1998 and January 2000. These data, which span a wide variety of atmospheric conditions, have been analyzed as a function of season, integrated amount, and time of day. The scale height of the mean aerosol profiles varies considerably as both a function of season and aerosol optical thickness, with the mean scale height increasing from less than 1 km in the winter to over 2 km during turbid summer days. The mean scale height of the water vapor remained very close to 2 km, regardless of season or precipitable water vapor. Furthermore, the distribution of aerosol optical thickness shows a slight shift to smaller values at night compared to day, and the mean aerosol profiles show little diurnal dependence except at the top of the boundary layer.
Brasseur L. A.
Ferrare Richard A.
Turner David D.
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