RECENT CLIMATOLOGICAL TRENDS IN ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOL BACKSCATTER DERIVED FROM THE JET-PROPULSION-LABORATORY MULTIYEAR BACKSCATTER PROFILE DATABASE

Authors
TRATT DM MENZIES RT
Citation
Dm. Tratt et Rt. Menzies, RECENT CLIMATOLOGICAL TRENDS IN ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOL BACKSCATTER DERIVED FROM THE JET-PROPULSION-LABORATORY MULTIYEAR BACKSCATTER PROFILE DATABASE, Applied optics, 33(3), 1994, pp. 424-430
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Applied optics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00036935
Volume
33
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
424 - 430
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-6935(1994)33:3<424:RCTIAA>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
An update is provided on the Jet Propulsion Laboratory aerosol backsca tter climatology database, with emphasis on the impact of the June 199 1 eruption of Mt. Pinatubo. The data set is acquired at thermal infrar ed wavelengths with a range-gated coherent CO2 lidar system, which has been in regular operation since 1984. A number of analyses have been carried out to assess long-term trends in the tropospheric and lower s tratospheric aerosol backscatter, as observed from the lidar site at P asadena, California.