Browsing by Author "Pappalardo, G."

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    • Characterization of atmospheric aerosols with multiwavelength Raman lidar 

      Mueller, D.; Mattis, I.; Kolgotin, Alexei; Ansmann, Albert; Wandinger, U.; Althausen, D. (SPIE, 2007)
      Multiwavelength Raman lidar observations have matured into a powerful tool for the vertical resolved characterization of optical and microphysical properties of atmospheric aerosol particles. Raman lidars that operate with ...

    • EARLINET correlative measurements for CALIPSO 

      Mattis, Ina; Mona, Lucia; Mueller, D.; Pappalardo, Gelsomina; Alados Arboledas, Lucas; D'Amico, Giuseppe; Amodeo, Aldo; Apituley, Arnoud; Maria Baldasano, Jose; Boeckmann, Christine; Boesenbergg, Jens; Chaikovsky, Anatoli; Comeron, Adolfo; Giannakaki, Elina; Grigorov, Ivan; Guerrero Rascado, Juan Luis; Gustafsson, Ove; Iarlori, Marco; Linne, Holger; Mitev, Valentin; Molero Menendez, Francisco; Nicola, Doina; Papayannis, Alexandros; Perez Garcia-Pando, Carlos; Perrone, Maria Rita; Pietruczuk, Aleksander; Putaud, Jean-Philippe; Ravetta, Francois; Rodriguez, Alejandro; Seifert, Patric; Sicard, Michael; Simeonov, Valentin; Sobolewski, Piotr; Spinelli, Nicola; Stebel, Kerstin; Stohl, Andreas; Tesche, Matthias; Trickl, Thomas; Wang, Xuan; Wiegner, Matthias (SPIE, 2007)
      The European Aerosol Research Lidar Network (EARLINET) was established in 2000 to derive a comprehensive, quantitative, and statistically significant data base for the aerosol distribution on the European scale. At present, ...

    • EARLINET observations of the 14-22-May long-range dust transport event during SAMUM 2006 : validation of results from dust transport modelling 

      Mueller, D.; Heinold, B.; Tesche, Matthias; Tegen, I.; Althausen, D.; Arboledas, L. Alados; Amiridis, V.; Amodeo, A.; Ansmann, A.; Balis, D.; Comeron, A.; D'amico, G.; Gerasopoulos, E.; Guerrero-Rascado, J. L.; Freudenthaler, V.; Giannakaki, E.; Heese, B.; Iarlori, M.; Knippertz, P.; Mamouri, R. E.; Mona, L.; Papayannis, A.; Pappalardo, G.; Perrone, R. -M.; Pisani, G.; Rizi, V.; Sicard, M.; Spinelli, N.; Tafuro, A.; Wiegner, M. (2009-02)
      We observed a long-range transport event of mineral dust from North Africa to South Europe during the Saharan Mineral Dust Experiment (SAMUM) 2006. Geometrical and optical properties of that dust plume were determined with ...

    • EARLINET observations of the Eyjafjallajokull ash plume over Europe 

      Pappalardo, Gelsomina; Amodeo, Aldo; Ansmann, Albert; Apituley, Arnoud; Alados Arboledas, Lucas; Balis, Dimitris; Boeckmann, Christine; Chaikovsky, Anatoli; Comeron, Adolfo; D'Amico, Giuseppe; De Tomasi, Ferdinando; Freudenthaler, Volker; Giannakaki, Elina; Giunta, Aldo; Grigorov, Ivan; Gustafsson, Ove; Gross, Silke; Haeffelin, Martial; Iarlori, Marco; Kinne, Stefan; Linne, Holger; Madonna, Fabio; Mamouri, Rodanthi; Mattis, Ina; McAuliffe, Michael; Molero, Francisco; Mona, Lucia; Mueller, D.; Mitev, Valentin; Nicolae, Doina; Papayannis, Alexandros; Perrone, Maria Rita; Pietruczuk, Aleksander; Pujadas, Manuel; Putaud, Jean-Philippe; Ravetta, Francois; Rizi, Vincenzo; Serikov, Ilya; Sicard, Michael; Simeonov, Valentin; Spinelli, Nicola; Stebel, Kerstin; Trickl, Thomas; Wandinger, U.; Wang, Xuan; Wagner, Frank; Wiegner, Matthias (SPIE, 2010)
      EARLINET, the European Aerosol Research Lidar NETwork, established in 2000, is the first coordinated lidar network for tropospheric aerosol study on the continental scale. The network activity is based on scheduled ...

    • Four-dimensional distribution of the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcanic cloud over Europe observed by EARLINET 

      Pappalardo, G.; Mona, L.; D'Amico, G.; Wandinger, U.; Adam, M.; Amodeo, A.; Ansmann, A.; Apituley, A.; Alados Arboledas, L.; Balis, D.; Boselli, A.; Bravo-Aranda, J. A.; Chaikovsky, A.; Comeron, A.; Cuesta, J.; De Tomasi, F.; Freudenthaler, V.; Gausa, M.; Giannakaki, E.; Giehl, H.; Giunta, A.; Grigorov, I.; Groß, S.; Haeffelin, M.; Hiebsch, A.; Iarlori, M.; Lange, D.; Linné, H.; Madonna, F.; Mattis, I.; Mamouri, R. E.; McAuliffe, M. A. P.; Mitev, V.; Molero, F.; Navas-Guzman, F.; Nicolae, D.; Papayannis, A.; Perrone, M. R.; Pietras, C.; Pietruczuk, A.; Pisani, G.; Preißler, J.; Pujadas, M.; Rizi, V.; Ruth, A. A.; Schmidt, J.; Schnell, F.; Seifert, P.; Serikov, I.; Sicard, M.; Simeonov, V.; Spinelli, N.; Stebel, K.; Tesche, Matthias; Trickl, T.; Wang, X.; Wagner, F.; Wiegner, M.; Wilson, K. M. (2013-04-29)
      The eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallaj ökull in April-May 2010 represents a "natural experiment" to study the impact of volcanic emissions on a continental scale. For the first time, quantitative data about the ...

    • Gravity-wave-induced cloud formation in desert dust : Observation with temperature/humidity/aerosol Raman lidar in the framework of earlinet 

      Ansmann, Albert; Mattis, I.; Mueller, D.; Wandinger, U.; Althausen, D. (ESA PUBLICATIONS DIVISION C/O ESTEC, 2004)
      The evolution of three cloud layers that formed during the passage of a gravity wave in a desert dust layer was monitored with an advanced Raman lidar. Dust is characterized in terms of particle optical properties. The ...

    • Information content of multiwavelength lidar data on the base of Eigenvalues analysis 

      Veselovskii, Igor; Kolgotin, Alexei; Mueller, D.; Whiteman, D. (ESA PUBLICATIONS DIVISION C/O ESTEC, 2004)
      Multiwavelength Raman lidar technique in combination with sophisticated inversion algorithms has been recognized as a new tool to derive information about microphysical properties of atmospheric aerosols. The optical input ...

    • Lidar measurements for desert dust characterization : an overview 

      Mona, L.; Liu, Z.; Mueller, D.; Omar, A.; Papayannis, A.; Pappalardo, G.; Sugimoto, N.; Vaughan, M. (2012)
      We provide an overview of light detection and ranging (lidar) capability for describing and characterizing desert dust. This paper summarizes lidar techniques, observations, and fallouts of desert dust lidar measurements. ...

    • Measuring atmospheric composition change 

      Laj, P.; Klausen, J.; Bilde, M.; Plass-Duelmer, C.; Pappalardo, G.; Clerbaux, C.; Baltensperger, U.; Hjorth, J.; Simpson, D.; Reimann, S.; Coheur, P. -F.; Richter, A.; De Maziere, M.; Rudich, Y.; McFiggans, G. B.; Torseth, K.; Wiedensohler, A.; Morin, S.; Schulz, M.; Allan, J. D.; Attie, J.-L.; Barnes, I.; Birmili, W.; Cammas, J. P.; Dommen, J.; Dorn, H. -P.; Fowler, D.; Fuzzi, S.; Glasius, M.; Granier, C.; Hermann, M.; Isaksen, I. S. A.; Kinne, S.; Koren, I.; Madonna, F.; Maione, M.; Massling, A.; Moehler, O.; Mona, L.; Monks, P. S.; Mueller, D.; Mueller, T.; Orphal, J.; Peuch, V.H.; Stratmann, F.; Tanre, D.; Tyndall, G.; Riziq, A. Abo; Van Roozendael, M.; Villani, P.; Wehner, B.; Wex, H.; Zardini, A. A. (2009-10)
      Scientific findings from the last decades have clearly highlighted the need for a more comprehensive approach to atmospheric change processes. In fact, observation of atmospheric composition variables has been an important ...

    • Optic-fiber scramblers and a fourier transform lens as a means to tackle the problem on the overlap factor of lidar 

      Arshinov, Y.; Bobrovnikov, S.; Serikov, J.; Althausen, D.; Ansmann, Albert; Mattis, I.; Mueller, D.; Wandinger, U. (ESA PUBLICATIONS DIVISION C/O ESTEC, 2004)
      We present an instrumental approach to formation of the light beam in the image space of lidar optical receiver, behind its field stop, aimed at removing some adverse range dependent effects of the lidar overlap factor on ...

    • Optimization of lidar data processing : a goal of the EARILINET-ASOS project 

      Amodeo, Aldo; Mattis, Ina; Boeckmann, Christine; D'Amico, Giuseppe; Mueller, D.; Osterloh, Lukas; Chaikovsky, Anatoly; Pappalardo, Gelsomina; Ansmann, Albert; Apituley, Arnoud; Alados-Arboledas, Lucas; Balis, Dimitris; Comeron, Adolfo; Freudenthaler, Volker; Mitev, Valentin; Nicolae, Doina; Papayannis, Alexandros; Perrone, Maria Rita; Pietruezuk, Aleksander; Pujadas, Manuel; Putaud, Jean-Philippe; Ravetta, Francois; Rizi, Vincenzo; Simeonovs, Valentin; Spinelli, Nicola; Stebel, Kersten; Stoyanov, Dimitar; Trickl, Thomas; Wiegner, Matthias (SPIE, 2007)
      EARLINET-ASOS (European Aerosol Research Lidar Network - Advanced Sustainable Observation System) is a 5-year EC Project started in 2006. Based on the EARLINET infrastructure, it will provide appropriate tools to improve ...

    • Siberian forest-fire smoke observed over central Europe in spring/summer 2003 in the framework of earlinet 

      Mattis, I.; Mueller, D.; Ansmann, Albert; Wandinger, U.; Murayama, T.; Damoah, R. (ESA PUBLICATIONS DIVISION C/O ESTEC, 2004)
      We observed unexpectedly high particle backscattering and extinction in the free troposphere over Leipzig, Germany, in spring/summer 2003. Optical depth was about four times higher than in the respective months of 2000-2002. ...

    • Systematic lidar observations of Saharan dust over Europe in the frame of EARLINET (2000-2002) 

      Papayannis, A.; Amiridis, V.; Mona, L.; Tsaknakis, G.; Balis, D.; Boesenberg, J.; Chaikovski, A.; De Tomasi, F.; Grigorov, I.; Mattis, I.; Mitev, V.; Mueller, D.; Nickovic, S.; Perez, C.; Pietruczuk, A.; Pisani, G.; Ravetta, F.; Rizi, V.; Sicard, M.; Trickl, T.; Wiegner, M.; Gerding, M.; Mamouri, R. E.; D'Amico, G.; Pappalardo, G. (2008-05-29)
      More than 130 observation days of the horizontal and vertical extent of Saharan dust intrusions over Europe during the period May 2000 to December 2002 were studied by means of a coordinated lidar network in the frame of ...