Mineral quartz concentration measurements of mixed mineral dust/urban haze pollution plumes over Korea with multiwavelength aerosol Raman-quartz lidar

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Oct 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010georl..3720810m&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 37, Issue 20, CiteID L20810

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Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Aerosols And Particles (0345, 4801, 4906), Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Pollution: Urban And Regional (0305, 0478, 4251), Biogeosciences: Pollution: Urban, Regional And Global (0345, 4251)

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We present a case study of a concentration measurement of mineral quartz immersed in East Asian urban pollution. We use a novel lidar measurement technique that uses signals from Raman scattering from quartz at ultraviolet (360 nm) wavelength. The particle-extinction-related Ångström exponent (wavelength pair 355/532 nm) varies around 0.7 ± 0.2 , the lidar ratio is 50-55 sr at 532 nm. The numbers indicate that the pollution plume likely consisted of a mixture of mineral dust with urban haze. Dust concentrations vary between 8-11 μg/cm3. We determined Raman quartz concentrations from measurements simultaneously carried out at 546 nm, which allows us to measure for the first time the Raman-quartz-related Ångström exponent of mineral dust. Values are 3-4, whereas we expect a theoretical value of 4. It is unclear if the lower values follow from retrieval uncertainties or if they are linked to the internal structure of the quartz grains.

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