A method for estimating mineral dust concentration in aerosol mixture using a polarization lidar

Author

Sugimoto, Nobuo ; Shimizu, Atsushi ; Matsui, Ichiro ; Chen, Yan

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. for Environ. Studies, Ibaraki, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

15-19 Dec. 2003

Abstract

A method using the lidar depolarization ratio for estimating mineral dust concentration in aerosol mixture is described. The method is based on a simple assumption of an external mixture of two types of aerosols with different aerosol depolarization ratio. The method was applied to the lidar data observed in Beijing to estimate contribution of Asian dust in extinction coefficient profiles. The results showed the method is useful for separating contributions of Asian dust and air pollution aerosols. Further conversion to estimate dust mass concentration was tested. The mass/extinction conversion factor determined by the comparison with a high-volume sampler data was 1870 (μg/m³)/(km) for typical Asian dust in Beijing. The conversion factor is dependent on the particle size distribution and is much smaller for air pollution aerosols.

Keywords

aerosols; air pollution measurement; atmospheric composition; atmospheric measuring apparatus; atmospheric techniques; dust; optical radar; particle size; Asian dust; Beijing; aerosol mixture; extinction coefficient profiles; lidar depolarization ratio; mass/extinction conversion factor; mineral dust concentration; particle size distribution; polarization lidar; Aerosols; Air pollution; Backscatter; Extinction coefficients; Laser radar; Minerals; Optical mixing; Polarization; Protection; Terrestrial atmosphere;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2003. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2003. The 5th Pacific Rim Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7766-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOPR.2003.1277265

Filename

1277265