Christine Böckmann

TL;DR: In this article, a set of optical particle properties from several lidar platforms was available for the inversion into particle microphysical quantities, which provided particle effective radius, volume, surface-area, and number concentrations, and complex refractive index.

TL;DR: A specially developed method is proposed to retrieve the particle volume distribution, the mean refractive index, and other important physical parameters, e.g., the effective radius, volume, surface area, and number concentrations of tropospheric and stratospheric aerosols from optical data by use of multiple wavelengths.

TL;DR: It is shown that under certain constraints a minimum data set of three backscatter coefficients and two extinction coefficients is sufficient for a successful inversion, and the quality of the retrieved aerosol parameters depends strongly on the imaginary part owing to the degree of ill-posedness.

TL;DR: In this article, a multiwavelength Raman lidar technique was applied to obtain vertically resolved particle optical properties, and further inversion of those properties with a regularization algorithm allowed for retrieving microphysical information on the studied particles.