title: Retrieval of atmospheric particles optical properties by combining ground-based and spaceborne lidar elastic scattering profiles.
abstract: A simple algorithm is derived to retrieve the aerosol backscattering and extinction vertical profiles from simultaneously detected ground and space elastic lidar signals, without any a priori hypothesis on aerosol particles properties. This technique can be applied at any wavelength whenever two "counter looking" lidars are available and the atmosphere can be considered horizontally homogeneous in a spatial scale of the order of the distance between the two lidar beams. To test the accuracy of the algorithm a numerical simulation has been performed. Moreover, it has been applied in a real case to level 1 products from CALIPSO.
authors: Xuan
authors: X
authors: Wang
authors: Maria Grazia
authors: MG
authors: Frontoso
authors: Gianluca
authors: G
authors: Pisani
authors: Nicola
authors: N
authors: Spinelli