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28 October 2022 A comprehensive study of the biomass burning aerosol over Warsaw (2013-2020)
Lucja Janicka, Iwona S. Stachlewska, Christine Boeckmann, Wojciech Kumala, Holger Baars, Ronny Engelmann
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Abstract
Biomass burning aerosol play an important role in the Earth’s radiative budget, as it contains a significant amount of black carbon that absorbs solar radiation. The lidar measurements are conducted quasi-continuously over Warsaw at the Remote Sensing Laboratory (RSlab) of the Institute of Geophysics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw since 2013. The measurements performed by the multiwavelength PollyXT lidar system allowed to identify and analyze the cases of biomass burning aerosols inflow over Warsaw from different directions and under different meteorological conditions. The main identified sources of aerosol from biomass combustion over Warsaw are North America and Eastern Europe (Ukraine), whereas the aerosol from North America was observed in the higher parts of the atmosphere, partly having features of stratospheric smoke. The presentation will report the optical properties based on several selected inflow cases, as well as the unique analysis of the fine-scale aerosol microphysical parameters for the selected case.
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Lucja Janicka, Iwona S. Stachlewska, Christine Boeckmann, Wojciech Kumala, Holger Baars, and Ronny Engelmann "A comprehensive study of the biomass burning aerosol over Warsaw (2013-2020)", Proc. SPIE PC12265, Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere XXVII, PC1226505 (28 October 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2636230
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KEYWORDS
Aerosols

Combustion

LIDAR

Optical properties

Atmospheric particles

Biological research

Data modeling

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