ACP Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics ACP 1680-7324 Copernicus GmbH Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/acp-13-2435-2013 Airborne high spectral resolution lidar observation of pollution aerosol during EUCAARI-LONGREX Groß S. 1 Esselborn M. 1 2 Abicht F. 1 3 Wirth M. 1 Fix A. 1 Minikin A. 1 Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre (IPA), Münchner Str. 20, Oberpfaffenhofen, 82234 Weßling, Germany now at: European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, 85748 Garching, Germany now at: Max-Born-Institut, Max-Born-Str. 2a, 12489 Berlin, Germany 01 03 2013 13 5 2435 2444 This is an open-access article ditributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. This article is available from http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/13/2435/2013/acp-13-2435-2013.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/13/2435/2013/acp-13-2435-2013.pdf

Airborne high spectral resolution lidar observations over Europe during the EUCAARI-LONGREX field experiment in May 2008 are analysed with respect to the optical properties of continental pollution aerosol. Continental pollution aerosol is characterized by its depolarisation and lidar ratio. Over all, the measurements of the lidar ratio and the particle linear depolarization ratio of pollution aerosols provide a narrow range of values. Therefore, this data set allows for a distinct characterization of the aerosol type "pollution aerosol" and thus is valuable both to distinguish continental pollution aerosol from other aerosol types and to determine mixtures with other types of aerosols.

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