The atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) height defines the volume of air within which heat,
moisture and pollutants released at the Earth's surface are rapidly diluted. Despite the …

Air quality is concerned with pollutants in both the gas phase and solid or liquid phases. The
latter are referred to as aerosols, which are multifaceted agents affecting air quality, weather …

High altitude mountaintop observatories provide the opportunity to study aerosol properties
in the free troposphere without the added expense and difficulty of making airborne …

The European Aerosol Research Lidar Network, EARLINET, was founded in 2000 as a
research project for establishing a quantitative, comprehensive, and statistically significant …

The first regional synthesis of long‐term (back to~ 25 years at some stations) primary data
(from direct measurement) on aerosol optical depth from the ARFINET (network of aerosol …

Rationale: Desert dust particles, including quartz, which causes inflammatory responses in
the airway in animal studies, are transported to widespread regions around the globe …

More than 130 observation days of the horizontal and vertical extent of Saharan dust
intrusions over Europe during the period May 2000 to December 2002 were studied by …

The CALIOP (Cloud‐Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization) layer product is used for a
multimodel evaluation of the vertical distribution of aerosols. Annual and seasonal aerosol …

A multiyear climatological study of Saharan dust intrusions in the central Mediterranean in
terms of aerosol optical parameters vertical profiles is carried out for the first time …

Accurate modeling of the impact of aerosols on climate requires a detailed understanding of
the vertical distribution of aerosols. The Cloud–Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder …