Articles | Volume 12, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2183-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2183-2020
Data description paper
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14 Sep 2020
Data description paper |  | 14 Sep 2020

The Aerosol Characterization from Polarimeter and Lidar (ACEPOL) airborne field campaign

Kirk Knobelspiesse, Henrique M. J. Barbosa, Christine Bradley, Carol Bruegge, Brian Cairns, Gao Chen, Jacek Chowdhary, Anthony Cook, Antonio Di Noia, Bastiaan van Diedenhoven, David J. Diner, Richard Ferrare, Guangliang Fu, Meng Gao, Michael Garay, Johnathan Hair, David Harper, Gerard van Harten, Otto Hasekamp, Mark Helmlinger, Chris Hostetler, Olga Kalashnikova, Andrew Kupchock, Karla Longo De Freitas, Hal Maring, J. Vanderlei Martins, Brent McBride, Matthew McGill, Ken Norlin, Anin Puthukkudy, Brian Rheingans, Jeroen Rietjens, Felix C. Seidel, Arlindo da Silva, Martijn Smit, Snorre Stamnes, Qian Tan, Sebastian Val, Andrzej Wasilewski, Feng Xu, Xiaoguang Xu, and John Yorks

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ACEPOL Science Team: Aerosol Characterization from Polarimeter and Lidar Campaign, NASA Langley Atmospheric Science Data Center DAAC, https://doi.org/10.5067/SUBORBITAL/ACEPOL2017/DATA001, 2017. 
AirMSPI Science Team: Aerosol Characterization from Polarimeter and Lidar Campaign, AirMSPI instrument ellipsoid mapped data, NASA Langley Atmospheric Science Data Center DAAC, https://doi.org/10.5067/AIRCRAFT/AIRMSPI/ACEPOL/ RADIANCE/ELLIPSOID_V006, 2017a. 
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The Aerosol Characterization from Polarimeter and Lidar (ACEPOL) field campaign is a resource for the next generation of spaceborne multi-angle polarimeter (MAP) and lidar missions. Conducted in the fall of 2017 from the Armstrong Flight Research Center in Palmdale, California, four MAP instruments and two lidars were flown on the high-altitude ER-2 aircraft over a variety of scene types and ground assets. Data are freely available to the public and useful for algorithm development and testing.
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