Three ground based portable low power consumption microlidars (MULID) have been built and deployed at three remote sites in Banizoumbou (Niger), Cinzana (Mali) and M'Bour (Senegal) in the framework of the African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses (AMMA) project for the characterization of aerosols optical properties. A description of the instrument and a discussion of the data inversion method, including a careful analysis of measurement uncertainties (systematic and statistical errors) are presented. Some case studies of typical lidar profiles observed over the Banizoumbou site during 2006 are shown and discussed with respect to the AERONET 7-day back-trajectories and the biomass burning emissions from the Combustion Emission database for the AMMA campaign.
@article{arxiv.1011.3655,
title = {The AMMA mulid network for aerosol characterization in West Africa},
author = {Olga Cavalieri and Guido Di Donfrancesco and Francesco Cairo and Federico Fierli and Marcel Snels and Maurizio Viterbini and Francesco Cardillo and Bernadette Chatenet and Paola Formenti and Beatrice Marticorena and Jean Louis Rajot},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.3655},
year = {2015}
}