Characterizing the Vertical Distribution of Aerosols using Ground-based Multiwavelength Lidar Data

Richard Anthony Ferrare1, Tyler Thorsen1, Marian Clayton2, Detlef Mueller3, Eduard Chemyakin4, Sharon P Burton1, John Goldsmith5, Robert Holz6, Ralph Kuehn7, Edwin W Eloranta8, Willem Marais9,10, Rob K Newsom11, Xu Liu1, Patricia Sawamura1, Brent Holben12 and Chris A Hostetler1, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)RSES: Coherent Application, Inc. - Psionic, LLC, Hampton, United States, (3)SSAI, Hampton, VA, United States, (4)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, United States, (5)Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, United States, (6)UW SSEC, Madison, United States, (7)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, United States, (8)Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States, (9)UW SSEC, Madison, WI, United States, (10)University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States, (11)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (12)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States