Global monitoring of clouds and aerosols using a network of micropulse lidar systems

By E. Welton, James R. Campbell, J. Spinhirne, V. Stanley Scott III. SPIE Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing, 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Citations in the corpus

• STRAT: An Automated Algorithm to Retrieve the Vertical Structure of the Atmosphere from Single-Channel Lidar Data (2007, background): “The National Aeronautics and Space Administration funds a MicroPulse Lidar Network (MPLNet; Welton et al. 2001) to monitor troposheric aerosols based on 20 micropulse lidars located at climatologically diverse locations on the planet and coordinated with the Aerosol Robotic Sunphotometer Network…”
• Aerosols and surface UV products from Ozone Monitoring Instrument observations: An overview (2007, background): “The Micropulse Lidar Network, MPLNET [Welton et al., 2001] and the European Lidar Network, EARLINET [Bösenberg et al., 2001] are two important sources of ground-based observations of the vertical distribution of aerosol particles.”
• MAC‐v1: A new global aerosol climatology for climate studies (2013, background): “At a few sites, colocated lidars [Welton et al., 2001; Bösenberg et al., 2003; Sugimoto et al., 2008] add complementary data on the aerosol vertical distribution via aerosol backscatter profiles or aerosol extinction profiles.”
• Portable Raman Lidar Polly XT for Automated Profiling of Aerosol Backscatter, Extinction, and Depolarization (2009, background): “The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Micro-Pulse Lidar Network (MPLNET) presently consists of 10–20 globally distributed, compact, autonomous, and eye-safe micropulse lidars (Welton et al. 2001).”
• The EarthCARE Satellite: The Next Step Forward in Global Measurements of Clouds, Aerosols, Precipitation, and Radiation (2015, methodology): “2007), or the European Aerosol Research Lidar Network (EARLINET) and MicroPulse Lidar Network (MPLNET) (Pappalardo et al. 2010; Welton et al. 2001), can be used to validate EarthCARE products through statistical approaches as was done for CloudSat (Protat et al.”
• Comparison of CALIOP level 2 aerosol subtypes to aerosol types derived from AERONET inversion data (2009, methodology): “Another widely recognized lidar network is the Micropulse Lidar network (MPLNET) [Welton et al., 2001], which has 31 sites collocated with sunphotometers in the NASA Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) [Holben et al., 1998] around the globe.”
• THE JOINT AEROSOL- MONSOON EXPERIMENT A New Challenge for Monsoon Climate Research (2008, background): “…sun photometer and ancillary measurements network (Holben et al. 1998), as well as the MicroPulse Lidar Network (MPLNET) of relatively low cost micropulse backscatter lidars that measure the vertical profile of aerosols (Welton et al. 2001) should be included as part of the JAMEX/CEOP-II database.”