Multi-instrumental study of aerosol optical properties over the city of São Paulo

Abstract

The objective of this project is the study of aerosols optical properties in the São Paulo atmosphere using an elastic backscattering LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) system set-up in the Center for Lasers and Applications (CLA) at the Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares (IPEN) located at University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Besides, our system is in the list of the correlative validation of CALIPSO Satellite mission effort. We show here a methodology to be followed and first preliminary results of the correlative measurements between the groundbase system at IPEN and the satellite mission.