Inferring CALIPSO backscattering data over Antarctica during spring

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Inferring CALIPSO backscattering data over
Antarctica during spring
Term paper presentation for EAS-6792
Shekhar Chandra, EAS
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Acknowledgment
Dr. Tao Zeng, for his critical suggestions and
helping me out with IDL, which I was totally new
to!
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Introduction

• CALIPSO
• Data Products (L1,L2..)
• Data acquisition (Public Issuance)
• Data Format (hdf) (Hierarchical Data Format)

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Terms Involved
Rayleigh Scattering

• Backscattering

Mie Scattering
Raman Scattering
Perpendicular BackscatteringHorizontal
Backscattering
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Definition of the problem

• Getting Backscattering data from CALIPSO (L1)
• Analysis
• Antarctica during spring
• Qualitative information from the vertical profile
  
• backscattering data

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CALIPSO data results
Liu et al., attenuated backscattering
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Theoretical Basis
Parallel and Perpendicular Component
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Dependence of Parallel and Perpendicular
Component
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Domain of the current study

• (-860-880) south
• September to October

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Results
532 nm. in September-06
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532 nm. in October-06
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Perpendicular vs. Horizontal Component