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Dr. Alain Miffre

Lecturer at Lab de Spectrométrie Ionique et Moléculaire

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Proceedings Article | 26 October 2010 Paper

Characterization of Iceland volcanic aerosols by UV-polarization lidar at Lyon, SW Europe

Alain Miffre, Grégory David, Benjamin Thomas, Patrick Rairoux

Proceedings Volume 7832, 78320Q (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.869019

KEYWORDS: LIDAR, Particles, Atmospheric particles, Troposphere, Aerosols, Atmospheric modeling, Backscatter, Clouds, Calibration, Scattering

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In this paper, a ground-based UV-polarization Lidar is used to characterize the optical properties of volcanic particles that originated from the Eyjafjöll volcano (63.63°N, 19.62°W, Iceland) and advected over Lyon (45.76°N, 4.83°E, France), a distance 2,600 kilometers away. The volcanic origin of the observed particles has been confirmed with 7-days air mass back-trajectories and FLEXPART dispersion model. The measured UV-particle backscattering coefficient is typically equal to 4 × 10^-6 m^-1.sr^-1. UV-depolarization ratios measurements have been performed in the troposphere of Lyon to measure the degree of volcanic particle non-sphericity. Experimental efforts have been done to determine the systematic errors contributing to the retrieved UV-particle depolarization ratio δ_p. The precision on retrieved δ_p-values is hence dominated by the uncertainty on the extinction to backscatter ratio S = 55 ± 10. It follows that the microphysical properties of the observed volcanic aerosols are quite difficult to retrieve from δ_p. However, a main volcanic layer of 2 kilometres width has been observed in the troposphere of Lyon, where measured UV δ_p-values reach up to (30 ± 10) %, showing that the observed highly dispersed and aged volcanic particles are irregular-shaped particles, even at more than 2,000 km from the Eyjafjöll volcano.

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