19–21 May 2014
Palazzo del Bo
Europe/Rome timezone
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Multi-wavelength polarization Lidar characterization of mineral dust at Dunhuang (China)

19 May 2014, 17:35
35m
Aula Nievo (Palazzo del Bo)

Aula Nievo

Palazzo del Bo

Via 8 Febbraio 1848, 2, 35122 Padua, Italy
Oral Highlights

Speaker

Dr Xuan WANG (CNISM - University of Naples "Federico II"; CNR-SPIN, Napoli)

Description

Xuan Wang1, Antonella Boselli2 , Alessia Sannino3 , Nicola Spinelli3 , Yiming Zhao4,, Song Changbo4 CNISM& BRIT - China-Italy Laser Remote Sensing Joint Research Center and 1CNR-SPIN, Napoli, Italy 2CNR-IMAA, Napoli, Italy 3Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Napoli, Italy 4Beijing Research Institute for Telemetry, Beijing, P.R. China The Gobi desert is the major source of mineral dust in China, that is one of the most interesting regions for aerosol study being surrounded by the main sources of anthropogenic and natural aerosol. In order to characterize the chemical and physical properties of atmospheric aerosols, their spatial and temporal distribution and the main transport mechanisms a new, versatile and portable Raman scanning lidar system has been designed and developed at Physics Department of University of Napoli “Federico II” in the frame of the AMPLE project, the first action of the recently founded China-Italy Laser Remote Sensing Joint Research Center between the National Consortium of Italian Universities for the Physical Science of the Matter (CNISM) and the Beijing Research Institute for Telemetry (BRIT). A first demonstrative measurement campaign has been performed on May 2013 in Beijing, while on August 2013 AMPLE has been carried in Dunhuang close to the Gobi desert and far away from the urban area, in order to study sand dust directly at source. Results of those measurements will be described.

Primary author

Dr Xuan WANG (CNISM - University of Naples "Federico II"; CNR-SPIN, Napoli)

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