Thomas Kanitz

TL;DR: In this paper, a long-term comparison of CALIPSO and ground-based lidar observations of the aerosol conditions in the coastal environment of southern South America (Punta Arenas, Chile, 53° S), performed in December 2009-April 2010, is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a hybrid single-particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (HYSPLIT) and a flexible particle dispersion model (FLEXPART) to identify the sources of aerosol sources.

TL;DR: A detailed characterization of the hot pixels that occurred during the first 1.5 years in orbit of Aeolus is provided and it is shown that multi-level RTS pixels with high fluctuation are the biggest challenge for the hot pixel correction scheme.

TL;DR: In this article, the direct solar radiative effect of aerosols over the Atlantic Ocean was investigated on the basis of aerosol Raman/polarization lidar observations aboard the research vessel Polarstern between Germany (50°N) and either South America or South Africa (40°S) in 2009 and 2010.

TL;DR: In this article, the design and operational principle of ATLID are recalled and the major performance test results are presented, addressing the main key receiver and emitter characteristics, which indicate compliance of the ATLID instrument performance against its specification and that it will meet its mission science objectives for the EarthCARE mission, to be launched in 2023.