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Papers

Brooks, I. M. (2003). Finding boundary layer top: application of a wavelet covariance transform to lidar backscatter profiles. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 20, 1092-1105

Cadet, B., Giraud, V., Haeffelin, M., Keckhut, P., Rechou, A., Baldy, S. (2005) Improved retrievals of cirrus cloud optical properties using a combination of lidar methods. Applied Optics, 44, 1726–1734.

Haywood, J. M., Jones, A., Clarisse, L., Bourassa, A., Barnes, J., Telford, P., Bellouin, N., Boucher, O., Agnew, P., Clerbaux, C., Coheur, P., Degenstein, D., Braesicke, P. (2010). Observation of the eruption of the Sarychev volcano and simulations using the HadGEM2 climate model. Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, D21212, doi:10.1029/2010JD014447,2010

Hogan, R. J., Illingworth, A. J., O’Connor, E. J., Poiares Baptista, J. P. V. (2003). Characteristics of mixedphase clouds: Part II: A climatology from groundbased lidar. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 129, 2117–2134.

Illingworth, A. J., Hogan, R. J., O’Connor E J Bouniol D Brooks M E Delanoë J Donovan D P Eastment J D Gaussiat N Goddard J W F Haeffelin M Klein Baltink H Krasnov O A Pelon J Piriou J.-M. Protat A. Russchenberg W J Seifert A Tompkins A M van Zadelhoff G.-J. Vinit F Willén U Wilson D R Wrench C L. (2007). CLOUDNET: Continuous evaluation of cloud profiles in seven operational models using ground-based observations. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 88(6), 883-898

Liang, Q., Jaegle, L., Jaffe, D. A., Weiss-Pensias, P., Heckman, A., Snow, J. A. (2003). Long-range transport of Asian pollution to the northeast Pacific: seasonal variations and transport pathways of carbon monoxide. Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, D23S07, doi:10.1029/2003JD00402,2004

Mattis, I., Müller, D., Ansmann, A., Wandinger, U., Preißler, J., Seifert, P., Tesche, M. (2008). Ten years of multiwavelength Raman lidar observations of free-tropospheric aerosol layers over central Europe: Geometrical properties and annual cycle. Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, D20202

McKendry, I. G., Hacker, J. P., Stull, R. (2001). Long-range transport of Asian dust to the Lower Fraser Valley, British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Geophysical Research, 106, 18361 – 18370

McKendry, I. G., Strawbridge, K. B., O’Neill, N. T., Macdonald, A. M., Liu, P. S. K., Laeitch, W. R., Anlauf, K. G., Jaegle, Lyatt, Fairlie, T. D., Westphal, D. L. (2007). Trans-pacific transport of Saharan dust to western North America: A case study. Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, D01103, doi:10.1029/2006JD007129

McKendry, I.G., Macdonald, A. M., Leaitch, W. R., van Donkelaar, A., Zhang, Q., Duck, T., Martin, R. V. (2008). Trans-Pacific dust events observed at Whistler, British Columbia during INTEX-B. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 8, 6297-6307

McKendry, I.G., van der Kamp, D., Strawbridge, K. B., Christen, A., Crawford, B. (2009). Simultaneous observations of boundary-layer aerosol layers with CL31 ceilometer and 1064/532 nm lidar. Atmospheric Environment, 43, 5847-5852

McKendry, I. G., Strawbridge, K., Karumudi, M. L., O’Neill, N. O., Macdonald, A. M., Leaitch, R., Jaffe, D., Cottle, P., Sharma, S., Sheridan, P., Ogren, J. (2011). Californian forest fire plumes over Southwestern British Columbia: lidar, sunphotometry, and mountaintop chemistry observations. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 11, 465 – 477, doi:10.5194/acp-11-465-2011

Melfi, S.H.; Whiteman, D.; Rerrare, R. (1989). Observation of Atmospheric Fronts using Raman Lidar Moisture Measurements. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 28, 789 – 806

Morille, Y. M., Haeffelin, M., Drobinski P., Pelon, J. (2007). STRAT: An automated algorithm to retrieve the structure of the atmosphere from single-channel lidar data. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 24, 761 – 775

Müller, D., Mattis, I., Wandinger, U., Ansmann, A., Althausen, D. (2005). Raman lidar observations of aged Siberian and Canadian forest fire smoke in the Free Troposphere over Germany in 2003: Microphysical Particle Characterization. Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, D17201

Murayama, T., Okamoto, H. Kaneyasu, N., Kamataki, H., Miura, K. (1999). Application of lidar depolarization measurement in the atmospheric boundary layer: Effects of dust and sea-salt particles. Journal of Geophysical Research, 104, D24, 31781 – 31792.

Murayama, T., Sugimoto, N., Uno, I., Kinoshita, K., Aoki, K., Hagiwara, N., Liu, Z., Matsui, I., Sakai, T., Shibata, T., Arao, K., Sohn, B.-J., Won, J. G., Yoon, S. C., Li, T., Zhou, J., Hu, H., Abo, M., Iokibe, K., Koga, R., Iwasaka, Y. (2001). Ground-based network observation of Asian dust events of April 1998 in East Asia. Journal of Geophysical Research, 106(D16), 18345 – 18359

Pal, S., Behrendt, A., Wulfmeyer, V. (2010). Elastic-backscatter-lidar-based characterization of the convection boundary layer and investigation of related statistics. Annales Geophysicae, 28, 825 – 847

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Rauthe, M., Gerding, M., Lübken, F. J. (2008). Seasonal changes in gravity wave activity measured by lidars at mid-latitudes. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 8, 6775-6787

Reid, J. S., Eck, T. F., Christopher, S. A., Kppmann, R., Dubovik, O., Eleyterio, D. P., Holben, B. N., Reid, E. A., Zhang, J. (2005). A review of biomass burning emissions part III: intensive optical properties of biomass burning particles. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 5, 827 – 849

Sakai, T., Nagai, T., Nakazato, M., Mano, Y., Matsumura, T. (2003). Ice cloud and Asian dust studied with lidar measurements of particle extinction-to-backscatter ratio, particle depolarization, and water-vapor mixing ratio over Tsukuba. Applied Optics, 42, 36, 7103 – 7116

Stewart, S. A., Welton, E. J., Campbell, J. R., Barnes, J. E., Kelly, P., Talbot, R. W., Lin, N. (2008). Initial Lidar observations of the Kasatochi plume at multiple MPLNET sites. Americal Geophysical Union. Poster Presentation, #A53B-0271.

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Vaughan, M., Powell, K., Kuehn, R., Young, S., Winker, D., Hostetler, C., Hunt, W., Liu, Z., McGill, M., Getzewich, B. (2008). Fully automated detection of cloud and aerosol layers in the CALIPSO Lidar measurements. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 26, 2034 – 2050, doi:10.1175/2009JTECHA1228.1

van der Kamp, D., McKendry, I. G., Wong, M., Stull, R. (2008). Lidar ceilometer observations and modelling of a fireworks plume in Vancouver British Columbia. Atmospheric Environment, 42, 7174-7178

van Zadelhoff, G.-J., Donovan, D. P., Klein Baltink, H., Boers, R. (2004). Comparing ice cloud microphysical properties using CloudNET and Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program data. Journal of Geophysics Research, 109, D24214, doi:10.1029/2004JD004967.

Wang, Z., Sassen, K. (2001). Cloud type and macrophysical property retrieval using multiple remote sensors. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 40, 1665-1682

Yumimoto, K., Uno, I., Sugimoto, N., Shimizu, A., Liu, Z., Winker, D. M. (2007). Numerical modeling of Asian dust emission and transport with adjoint inversersion using Lidar network observations. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 7, 15955-15987