Determination of the Aerosol Microphysical Characteristics in the Lower Part of the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer from Lidar Data and Accompanying Measurements

摘要

Successful inversions of nephelometer data into the aerosol particle size distributions by the method of mean ordinates 1 encouraged us to apply this method to the data on the oceanic volume scattering function (VSF) obtained during LEO-15 Experiment. The objective of this work is to study the potentials of the method of mean ordinates to invert VSF into the particle size distributions (PSD) of oceanic hydrosol in coastal zones (zones of intense scattering). The inversion of VSF by the method of mean ordinates was applied both to numerical experiments and to VSF data obtained during LEO-15 Experiment.