Ceilometer inversion method using water-vapor correction from co-located microwave radiometer for aerosol retrievals

Abstract

Recent ceilometer models are more sensitive to aerosols, which is increasing the interest in these instruments to retrieve aerosol optical and microphysical properties. In this paper, a new methodology is proposed to retrieve aerosol vertical extinction and backscatter profiles from a Vaisala ceilometer CL51 model.