Browsing by Author "Rodríguez Gómez, Alejandro Antonio"
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A 1-D radiative transfer study of mineral dust during CHARMEX/ADRIMED 2013 campaign
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyA 1-D radiative transfer study is presented based on the measurements performed at Granada during a dust event within the framework of the ChArMEx/ADRIMED (Chemistry-Aerosol Mediterranean Experiment/Aerosol Direct Radiative ... -
A comparative analysis of aerosol optical coefficients and their associated errors retrieved from pure-rotational and vibro-rotational raman lidar signals
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2021-02-11)
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Open AccessThis paper aims to quantify the improvement obtained with a purely rotational Raman (PRR) channel over a vibro-rotational Raman (VRR) channel, used in an aerosol lidar with elastic and Raman channels, in terms of signal-to-noise ... -
A Methodology for investigating dust model performance using synergistic EARLINET/AERONET dust concentration retrievals
(2015-09-04)
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Open AccessSystematic measurements of dust concentration profiles at a continental scale were recently made possible by the development of synergistic retrieval algorithms using combined lidar and sun photometer data and the establishment ... -
A network of water vapor Raman lidars for improving heavy precipitation forecasting in southern France: introducing the WaLiNeAs initiative
(Springer, 2021-12)
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Open AccessExtreme heavy precipitation events (HPEs) pose a threat to human life but remain difficult to predict because of the lack of adequate high frequency and high-resolution water vapor (WV) observations in the low troposphere ... -
Aerosol radiative impact during the summer 2019 heatwave produced partly by an inter-continental Saharan dust outbreak – Part 1: Short-wave dust direct radiative effect
(European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2021-04-30)
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Open AccessThe short-wave (SW) direct radiative effect (DRE) during the summer 2019 heatwave produced partly by a moderate, long-lasting Saharan dust outbreak over Europe is analysed in this study. Two European sites (periods) are ... -
Aerosol radiative impact during the summer 2019 heatwave produced partly by an inter-continental Saharan dust outbreak – Part 2: Long-wave and net dust direct radiative effect
(European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2022-02-10)
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Open AccessThis paper is the companion paper of Córdoba-Jabonero et al. (2021). It deals with the estimation of the long-wave (LW) and net dust direct radiative effect (DRE) during the dust episode that occurred between 23 and ... -
Aerosol stratification characterization of an astronomical site by means of a backscatter lidar at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory
(2009)
Conference report
Open AccessThe Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, located on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, is home of many astronomical facilities. In the context of the Extremely Large Telescope Design Study, an intensive lidar ... -
An architecture providing depolarization ratio capability for a multi-wavelength Raman lidar: implementation and first measurements
(MDPI AG, 2017-12-20)
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Open AccessA new architecture for the measurement of depolarization produced by atmospheric aerosols with a Raman lidar is presented. The system uses two different telescopes: one for depolarization measurements and another for ... -
An automatic observation-based aerosol typing method for EARLINET
(European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2018-11-06)
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Open AccessWe present an automatic aerosol classification method based solely on the European Aerosol Research Lidar Network (EARLINET) intensive optical parameters with the aim of building a network-wide classification tool that ... -
An EARLINET early warning system for atmospheric aerosol aviation hazards
(European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2020-09-15)
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Open AccessA stand-alone lidar-based method for detecting airborne hazards for aviation in near real time (NRT) is presented. A polarization lidar allows for the identification of irregular-shaped particles such as volcanic dust and ... -
An explicit formulation for the retrieval of the overlap function in an elastic and Raman aerosol lidar
(European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2023-06-15)
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Open AccessWe derive an explicit (i.e., non-iterative) formula for the retrieval of the overlap function in an aerosol lidar with both elastic and Raman N2 and/or O2 channels used for independent measurements of aerosol backscatter ... -
Analysis of atmospheric aerosol properties using lidar measurements and their impact on radiative budget in Barcelona over the past 20 years
(International Society for Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), 2023)
Conference report
Open AccessAerosols are significant atmospheric constituents that modulate radiation and cloud processes. We evaluated 17-year aerosol profile trends in Barcelona, Spain, from lidar measurements. In summer aerosol reaches 5 km, while ... -
Anemómetro laser doppler para la medida de dos componentes de velocidad para aplicaciones hidrodinamicas (2d-lda)
(Universidad Europea de Madrid, 2001)
Conference report
Open AccessA Laser Doppler Anemometer system designed to measure two components of the velocity vector in fluids is presented. The scheme followed is the differential technique with backward scattering ... -
Atmospheric aerosol measurement with a network of advanced lidar instruments
(2013-03-11)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyA European network of atmosphere sensors uses multi-wavelength elastic-Raman lidar instruments in its infrastructure. -
Calculation of the overlap function and associated error of an elastic lidar or a ceilometer: Cross-comparison with a cooperative overlap-corrected system
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2020-11-05)
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Open AccessThis paper establishes the relationship between the signal of a lidar system corrected for the incomplete overlap effect and the signal of another lidar system or a ceilometer for which the overlap function is unknown. ... -
Calibration of Raman lidar water vapor mixing ratio measurements using zenithal measurements of diffuse sunlight and a radiative transfer model
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018-07-20)
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Open AccessAmong the different techniques available for measuring the atmospheric water vapor content, Raman lidars stand out as accurate instruments providing detailed profiles with high temporal and altitude resolution. Their ... -
Characterization of Tajogaite volcanic plumes detected over the Iberian Peninsula from a set of satellite and ground-based remote sensing instrumentation
(2023-06-13)
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Open AccessThree volcanic plumes were detected during the Tajogaite volcano eruptive activity (Canary Islands, Spain, September–December 2021) over the Iberian Peninsula. The spatiotemporal evolution of these events is characterised ... -
Cirrus scenes in Barcelona, Spain: Geometrical and optical properties and radiative effects
(American Institute of Physics (AIP), 2024)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyFor the first time, geometrical, optical and radiative properties of cirrus clouds, measured with a Polarized Micro Pulse Lidar (P-MPL) in Barcelona, have been analysed. For this purpose, the identification of cirrus scenes ... -
Climatological assessment of the vertically resolved optical and microphysical aerosol properties by lidar measurements, sun photometer, and in situ observations over 17 years at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) Barcelona
(European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2023-10-13)
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Open AccessAerosols are one of the most important pollutants in the atmosphere and have been monitored for the past few decades by remote sensing and in situ observation platforms to assess the effectiveness of government-managed ... -
Combined sun-photometer–lidar inversion: lessons learned during the EARLINET/ACTRIS COVID-19 campaign
(European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2023-12-15)
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Open AccessThe European Aerosol Research Lidar Network (EARLINET), part of the Aerosols, Clouds and Trace gases Research Infrastructure (ACTRIS), organized an intensive observational campaign in May 2020, with the objective of ...
