Synergy between CALIOP and MODIS instruments for aerosol monitoring: application to the Po Valley

We propose here a synergy between Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations/Cloud-Aerosol LIdar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIPSO/CALIOP) and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) onboard Aqua and Terra in order to retrieve aerosol optical properties over the Po Valley from June 2006 to February 2009. Such an approach gives simultaneously access to the aerosol extinction vertical profile and to the equivalent backscatter-to-extinction ratio at 532 nm (BER, inverse of the lidar ratio). The choice of the Po valley has been driven by the great occurrences of pollutant events leading to a mean MODIS-derived aerosol optical thickness of 0.27(±0.17) at 550 nm over a large area of ~120 000 km2

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