Seasonal variation of aerosol over Bandung, Indonesia

Sri Kaloka Prabotosari; Saipul Hamdi; Agus Nuryanto; Toshikasu Itabe; Kohei Mizutani; Motoaki Yasui; Tomohiro Nagai; Osamu Uchino; Akinori Ichiki

doi:10.1117/12.417087

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13 February 2001 Seasonal variation of aerosol over Bandung, Indonesia

Sri Kaloka Prabotosari, Saipul Hamdi, Agus Nuryanto, Toshikasu Itabe, Kohei Mizutani, Motoaki Yasui, Tomohiro Nagai, Osamu Uchino, Akinori Ichiki

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Proceedings Volume 4153, Lidar Remote Sensing for Industry and Environment Monitoring; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.417087
Event: Second International Asia-Pacific Symposium on Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere, Environment, and Space, 2000, Sendai, Japan

Abstract

Variation of stratospheric aerosol affects atmospheric minor constituents and climate through changes in the radiation field as well as by dynamic and chemical processes. In order to estimate the impact quantitatively, it is very important to observe stratospheric aerosol vertical distribution and their lime variation To obtain stratospheric aerosol especially in equatorial region a lidar was installed in Bandung (6.9° S; 107.7° E) Indonesia under collaboration between National Institute of Aeronautic and Space (LAPAN), Communication Research Laboratory of Japan and Meteorological Research Institute of Japan. The Lidar transmitter system employ fundamental (1064 nm), second harmonic (532 nm) and third harmonic (355 am) wavelengths ofNd: YAG laser are transmitted. The second harmonic backscatter light and its N2 ranian backscatter light (607 am) are collected by a 28 cm and a 35 cm diameter telescope. In 35 cm telescope system, upper troposphere and stratosphere are observed by photon counting. 532 am light component polarized parallel and perpendicular to the laser light are separately observed to get information about shape of aerosol. Bandung is located at around 750 m above mean sea level and it is surrounded by mountains, therefore clouds are easily formed especially between 10 and 17 km height. Stratospheric aerosol over Bandung are spreaded between 18 and 35 km in altitude and form more than 1 sub layer, below 30 km and upper 30 km. The maximum aerosol concentration is obtained around 22.5 km height. To understand the seasonal variation of stratospheric aerosol we integrated the backscattering coefficients for altitude range 18-35 km and it was obtained that the stratospheric aerosol concentration in 1997 was higher than in 1999. The integrated backscattering coefficient in June was higher than in August. But seems the seasonal variation of integrated backscattering coefficient in Bandung does not so clear determined yet.

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Sri Kaloka Prabotosari, Saipul Hamdi, Agus Nuryanto, Toshikasu Itabe, Kohei Mizutani, Motoaki Yasui, Tomohiro Nagai, Osamu Uchino, and Akinori Ichiki "Seasonal variation of aerosol over Bandung, Indonesia", Proc. SPIE 4153, Lidar Remote Sensing for Industry and Environment Monitoring, (13 February 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.417087

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