Study of the properties of aerosols and the air quality index using a backscatter lidar system and AERONET Sunphotometer in the City of São Paulo, Brazil.
Between the months of July and September of 2007 during the so-called Brazilian dry season, an aerosol profiling campaign was carried out with a backscatter(ing) lidar system in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. The main goal of this campaign was to observe the aerosol load in the troposphere (up to 10 km) and its daily behavior to check for air dispersion conditions, planetary boundary, and mixed layer height daily evolution. Lidar analysis provided aerosol optical properties in the visible range (532 nm) and quantities such as aerosol backscatter(ing) and extinction coefficients in conjunction with the aerosol optical thickness provided by a collocated AERONET Sunphotometer. Altogether 61 days were used in the dataset, which were compared with air quality indexation from the local air quality monitoring and management agency.
Landulfo
Eduardo
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Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares, Centro de Lasers e Aplicações, São Paulo, Brazil. elandulf@ipen.br
Lopes
Fábio J S
FJ
Mariano
Glauber L
GL
Torres
Ani S
AS
de Jesus
Wellington C
WC
Nakaema
Walter M
WM
Jorge
Maria P P M
MP
Mariani
Rauda
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D000336:Aerosols / Q000032:analysis*; D000397:Air Pollution / Q000032:analysis*; D001938:Brazil; D002947:Cities
D000336:Aerosols