Development of GRASP radiative transfer code for the retrieval of aerosol microphysics vertical-profiles from space measurements and its impact in ACE mission

Project Information

GRASP-ACE

Grant agreement ID: 778349

DOI 10.3030/778349

Project closed

EC signature date 22 November 2017

Start date 1 March 2018

End date 31 August 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost € 877 500,00

EU contribution € 877 500,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA
Spain

Deliverables

Documents, reports (4)

Minutes of kick-off meeting and report about board constitution.

Minutes of kick-off meeting and report about board constitution for the action

Development of an algorithm using 3β+2α information for the classification of aerosol size and absorption type

Development of an algorithm using 3β+2α information for the classification of aerosol size and absorption type. Such classification will be the input in the stand-alone inversion. It will be done both for spherical and non-spherical particles (dust)

Intercomparisons of stand-alone lidar inversion versus in-situ airborne data from experimental field campaigns.

Retrievals by the stand-alone inversion will be compared with airborne in-situ instrumentation during special field campaigns such as DISCOVER-AQ organized by NASA, SHADOW organized by the University of Lille and ORACLES where both NASA and the University of Lille participated. Such database is unique for evaluation of aerosol microphysics vertical-profiles, and particularly for aerosol single scattering albedo.

Complete characterization of the stand-alone 3β+2α lidar inversion

Discussion about the capabilities of the stand-alone 3β+2α liar inversion for retrieving aerosol microphysical and absorption properties

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (33)

Aerosol radiative impact during the summer 2019 heatwave produced partly by an inter-continental Saharan dust outbreak – Part 1: Short-wave dust direct radiative effect

Author(s): C. Córdoba-Jabonero; M. Sicard; M. Sicard; M.-Á. López-Cayuela; A. Ansmann; A. Comerón; M.-P. Zorzano; M.-P. Zorzano; A. Rodríguez-Gómez; C. Muñoz-Porcar
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2021, ISSN 1680-7324
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/acp-21-6455-2021

Characteristics of the weak localization effect for a discrete medium of spherical particles depending on their properties and the incident radiation angle

Author(s): Victor P. Tishkovets, Liudmyla A. Berdina
Published in: Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, Issue 310, 2023, Page(s) 108743, ISSN 0022-4073
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2023.108743

Estimation of the Mass Concentration of Volcanic Ash Using Ceilometers: Study of Fresh and Transported Plumes from La Palma Volcano

Author(s): Bedoya Velásquez, Andrés Esteban; Hoyos Restrepo, Manuela; Barreto Velasco, África; García Cabrera, Rosa Delia; Romero Campos, Pedro Miguel; García Rodríguez, Omaira Elena; Ramos López, Ramón; Roininen, Reijo; Toledano, Carlos; Sicard, Michaël; Ceolato, Romain
Published in: Remote Sensing, 2022, ISSN 2072-4292
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/rs14225680

Spatiotemporal changes in aerosol properties by hygroscopic growth and impacts on radiative forcing and heating rates during DISCOVER-AQ 2011

Author(s): Daniel Pérez-Ramírez; David N. Whiteman; Igor Veselovskii; Richard Ferrare; Gloria Titos; María José Granados-Muñoz; Guadalupe Sánchez-Hernández; Francisco Navas-Guzmán
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2021, ISSN 1680-7324
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/acp-2021-27

The unprecedented 2017–2018 stratospheric smoke event: decay phase and aerosol properties observed with the EARLINET

Author(s): H. Baars; A. Ansmann; K. Ohneiser; M. Haarig; R. Engelmann; D. Althausen; I. Hanssen; M. Gausa; A. Pietruczuk; A. Szkop; I. S. Stachlewska; D. Wang; J. Reichardt; A. Skupin; I. Mattis; T. Trickl; H. Vogelmann; F. Navas-Guzmán; A. Haefele; K. Acheson; A. A. Ruth; B. Tatarov; D. Müller; Q. Hu; T. Podvin; P. Goloub; I. Veselovskii; C. Pietras; M. Haeffelin; P. Fréville; M. Sicard; M. Sicard; A. Co
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2019, ISSN 1680-7324
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/acp-19-15183-2019

Ground/space, passive/active remote sensing observations coupled with particle dispersion modelling to understand the inter-continental transport of wildfire smoke plumes

Author(s): M. Sicarda; b; M.J. Granados-Muñoza; L. Alados-Arboledasc; d; R. Barragána; b; A.E. Bedoya-Velásquezc; d; J.A. Benavent-Oltrac; d; D. Bortolie; A. Comeróna; C. Córdoba-Jabonerof; M.J. Costae; A. del Águilaf; A.J.Fernándezg; J.L. Guerrero-Rascadoc; d; O. Jorbah; F. Molerog; C. Muñoz-Porcara; P. Ortiz-Amezcuac; d; N. Papagiannopoulosa; i; M. Potese; M. Pujadasg; F. Rocadenboscha; b; A. Rodr
Published in: Remote Sensing of Environment, 2019, ISSN 1879-0704
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2019.111294

A comparative analysis of aerosol optical coefficients and their associated errors retrieved from pure-rotational and vibro-rotational raman lidar signals

Author(s): José Alex Zenteno-Hernández; Adolfo Comerón; Alejandro Rodríguez-Gómez; Constantino Muñoz-Porcar; Giuseppe D'Amico; Michaël Sicard
Published in: Sensors, 2021, ISSN 1424-8220
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/s21041277

Different strategies to retrieve aerosol properties at night-time with the GRASP algorithm

Author(s): J. A. Benavent-Oltra; J. A. Benavent-Oltra; R. Román; J. A. Casquero-Vera; J. A. Casquero-Vera; D. Pérez-Ramírez; D. Pérez-Ramírez; H. Lyamani; H. Lyamani; P. Ortiz-Amezcua; P. Ortiz-Amezcua; A. E. Bedoya-Velásquez; A. E. Bedoya-Velásquez; G. de Arruda Moreira; G. de Arruda Moreira; Á. Barreto; Á. Barreto; Á. Barreto; A. Lopatin; D. Fuertes; M. Herrera; B. Torres; O. Dubovik; J. L. Guerr
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2019, ISSN 1680-7324
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/acp-19-14149-2019

Volcanic Eruption of Cumbre Vieja, La Palma, Spain: A First Insight to the Particulate Matter Injected in the Troposphere

Author(s): Michaël Sicard; Carmen Córdoba-Jabonero; Africa Barreto; Ellsworth J. Welton; Cristina Gil-Díaz; Clara V. Carvajal-Pérez; Adolfo Comerón; Omaira García; Rosa García; María-Ángeles López-Cayuela; Constantino Muñoz-Porcar; Natalia Prats; Ramón Ramos; Alejandro Rodríguez-Gómez; Carlos Toledano; Carlos Torres
Published in: Remote Sensing, 2022, ISSN 2072-4292
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/rs14102470

Extreme, wintertime Saharan dust intrusion in the Iberian Peninsula: Lidar monitoring and evaluation of dust forecast models during the February 2017 event

Author(s): A.J. Fernández; Michaël Sicard; Maria João Costa; Juan Luis Guerrero-Rascado; José Luis Gómez-Amo; Francisco Molero; Ruben Barragan; Sara Basart; Daniele Bortoli; Andrés Esteban Bedoya-Velásquez; María P. Utrillas; Pedro Salvador; Maria Jose Granados-Muñoz; Miguel Potes; Pablo Ortiz-Amezcua; J.A. Martínez-Lozano; Begoña Artíñano; Constantino Muñoz-Porcar; Rui Salgado; Roberto Román;
Published in: Atmospheric Research, 2019, ISSN 0169-8095
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2019.06.007

Estimates of remote sensing retrieval errors by the GRASP algorithm: application to ground-based observations, concept and validation

Author(s): Herrera, Milagros E.; Dubovik, Oleg; Torres, Benjamin; Lapyonok, Tatyana; Fuertes, David; Lopatin, Anton; Litvinov, Pavel; Chen, Cheng; Benavent-Oltra, Jose Antonio; Bali, Juan L.; Ristori, Pablo R.
Published in: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2022, ISSN 1867-8548
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/amt-15-6075-2022

An algorithm and codes for fast computations of the opposition effects in a semi-infinite discrete random medium

Author(s): Victor P. Tishkovets, Elena V. Petrova
Published in: Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, Issue 255, 2020, Page(s) 107252, ISSN 0022-4073
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2020.107252

Validation of AERONET-Estimated Upward Broadband Solar Fluxes at the Top-Of-The-Atmosphere with CERES Measurements

Author(s): Michaël Sicard
Published in: Remote Sensing, 2019, ISSN 2072-4292
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/rs11182168

Retrieval of Aged Biomass-Burning Aerosol Properties byUsing GRASP Code in Synergy with Polarized Micro-PulseLidar and Sun/Sky Photometer

Author(s): María-Ángeles López-Cayuela, Milagros E. Herrera, Carmen Córdoba-Jabonero, Daniel Pérez-Ramírez, Clara Violeta Carvajal-Pérez, Oleg Dubovik and Juan Luis Guerrero-Rascado
Published in: Remote Sensing, 2022, ISSN 2072-4292
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/rs14153619

Statistical validation of Aeolus L2A particle backscatter coefficient retrievals over ACTRIS/EARLINET stations in the Iberian Peninsula

Author(s): Abril-Gago, Jesús; Guerrero-Rascado, Juan Luis; Costa, Maria João; Bravo-Aranda, Juan Antonio; Sicard, Michaël; Bermejo-Pantaleón, Diego; Bortoli, Daniele; Granados-Muñoz, María José; Rodríguez-Gómez, Alejandro; Muñoz-Porcar, Constantino; Comerón, Adolfo; Ortiz-Amezcua, Pablo; Salgueiro, Vanda; Jiménez-Martín, Marta María; Alados-Arboledas, Lucas
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2022, ISSN 1680-7324
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/acp-22-1425-2022

Vertical characterization of fine and coarse dust particles during an intense Saharan dust outbreak over the Iberian Peninsula in springtime 2021

Author(s): López-Cayuela, María Ángeles; Córdoba-Jabonero, Carmen; Bermejo-Pantaleón, Diego; Sicard, Michaël; Salgueiro, Vanda; Molero, Francisco; Carvajal-Pérez, Clara Violeta; Granados-Muñoz, María José; Comerón, Adolfo; Couto, Flavio T.; Barragán, Rubén; Zorzano, María-Paz; Bravo-Aranda, Juan Antonio; Muñoz-Porcar, Constantino; Costa, María João; Artíñano, Begoña; Rodríguez-Gómez, Al
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2023, ISSN 1680-7324
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/acp-23-143-2023

An explicit formulation for the retrieval of the overlap function in an elastic and Raman aerosol lidar

Author(s): Adolfo Comerón; Constantino Muñoz-Porcar; Alejandro Rodríguez-Gómez; Michaël Sicard; Federico Dios; Cristina Gil-Díaz; Daniel Camilo Fortunato dos Santos Oliveira; Francesc Rocadenbosch
Published in: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2023, ISSN 1867-8548
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/amt-16-3015-2023

Calculation of the Overlap Function and Associated Error of an Elastic Lidar or a Ceilometer: Cross-Comparison with a Cooperative Overlap-Corrected System.

Author(s): Michaël Sicard; Alejandro Rodríguez-Gómez; Adolfo Comerón; Constantino Muñoz-Porcar
Published in: Sensors, 2020, ISSN 1424-8220
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/s20216312

Overview: On the transport and transformation of pollutants in the outflow of major population centres – observational data from the EMeRGe European intensive operational period in summer 2017

Author(s): M. Dolores Andrés Hernández; Andreas Hilboll; Helmut Ziereis; Eric Förster; Ovid O. Krüger; Katharina Kaiser; Johannes Schneider; Francesca Barnaba; Mihalis Vrekoussis; Jörg Schmidt; Heidi Huntrieser; Anne-Marlene Blechschmidt; Midhun George; Vladyslav Nenakhov; Theresa Harlass; Bruna A. Holanda; Jennifer Wolf; Lisa Eirenschmalz; Marc Krebsbach; Mira L. Pöhlker; Anna B. Kalisz Hedegaard; Lin
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2019, ISSN 1680-7324
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/acp-22-5877-2022

Overview of the SLOPE I and II campaigns: aerosol properties retrieved with lidar and sun–sky photometer measurements

Author(s): J. A. Benavent-Oltra; J. A. Benavent-Oltra; J. A. Benavent-Oltra; J. A. Casquero-Vera; J. A. Casquero-Vera; R. Román; H. Lyamani; H. Lyamani; D. Pérez-Ramírez; D. Pérez-Ramírez; M. J. Granados-Muñoz; M. J. Granados-Muñoz; M. Herrera; A. Cazorla; A. Cazorla; G. Titos; G. Titos; P. Ortiz-Amezcua; P. Ortiz-Amezcua; P. Ortiz-Amezcua; A. E. Bedoya-Velásquez; A. E. Bedoya-Velásquez; G. de Arrud
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2021, ISSN 1680-7324
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/acp-21-9269-2021

Application of Optimal Interpolation to Spatially and Temporally Sparse Observations of Aerosol Optical Depth

Author(s): Natallia Miatselskaya; Gennadi Milinevsky; Andrey Bril; Anatoly Chaikovsky; Alexander Miskevich; Yuliia Yukhymchuk
Published in: Atmosphere, 2022, ISSN 2073-4433
Publisher: Rotoweb Cantelli
DOI: 10.3390/atmos14010032

Aerosol radiative impact during the summer 2019 heatwave produced partly by an inter-continental Saharan dust outbreak – Part 2: Long-wave and net dust direct radiative effect

Author(s): Michaël Sicard; Carmen Córdoba-Jabonero; María-Ángeles López-Cayuela; Albert Ansmann; Adolfo Comerón; María-Paz Zorzano; Alejandro Rodríguez-Gómez; Constantino Muñoz-Porcar
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2022, ISSN 1680-7324
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/acp-2021-419

Optimized profile retrievals of aerosol microphysical properties from simulated spaceborne multiwavelength Lidar

Author(s): Daniel Pérez-Ramírez, David N. Whiteman, Igor Veselovskii, Mikhail Korenski, Peter R. Colarco, Arlindo M. da Silva
Published in: Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, Issue 246, 2020, Page(s) 106932, ISSN 0022-4073
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2020.106932

Precipitable water vapor over oceans from the Maritime Aerosol Network: Evaluation of global models and satellite products under clear sky conditions

Author(s): Daniel Pérez-Ramírez, Alexander Smirnov, Rachel T. Pinker, Maksym Petrenko, Roberto Román, W. Chen, Charles Ichoku, Stefan Noël, Gonzalo Gonzalez Abad, Hassan Lyamani, Brent N. Holben
Published in: Atmospheric Research, Issue 215, 2019, Page(s) 294-304, ISSN 0169-8095
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2018.09.007

Retrievals of aerosol single scattering albedo by multiwavelength lidar measurements: Evaluations with NASA Langley HSRL-2 during discover-AQ field campaigns

Author(s): Daniel Pérez-Ramírez, David N. Whiteman, Igor Veselovskii, Peter Colarco, Mikhail Korenski, Arlindo da Silva
Published in: Remote Sensing of Environment, Issue 222, 2019, Page(s) 144-164, ISSN 0034-4257
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2018.12.022

Characterization of aerosol hygroscopicity using Raman lidar measurements at the EARLINET station of Payerne

Author(s): F. Navas-Guzmán; G. Martucci; M. Collaud Coen; M. J. Granados-Muñoz; M. Hervo; M. Sicard; M. Sicard; A. Haefele; A. Haefele
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2019, ISSN 1680-7324
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/acp-19-11651-2019

Synergy of Raman Lidar and Modeled Temperature for Relative Humidity Profiling: Assessment and Uncertainty Analysis

Author(s): Constantino Muñoz-Porcar; Michaël Sicard; María José Granados-Muñoz; Ruben Barragan; Adolfo Comerón; Francesc Rocadenbosch; Alejandro Rodríguez-Gómez; David Garcia-Vizcaino
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2021, ISSN 1558-0644
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tgrs.2020.3039689

Measurement report: Characterization of the vertical distribution of airborne Pinus pollen in the atmosphere with lidar-derived profiles: a modelling case study in the region of Barcelona, NE Spain

Author(s): Michaël Sicard; Oriol Jorba; Jiang Ji Ho; Rebeca Izquierdo; Rebeca Izquierdo; Concepción De Linares; Concepción De Linares; Marta Alarcón; Adolfo Comerón; Jordina Belmonte
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2021, ISSN 1680-7324
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/acp-2021-235

Retrieval of aerosol properties using relative radiance measurements from an all-sky camera

Author(s): R. Román; J. C. Antuña-Sánchez; V. E. Cachorro; C. Toledano; B. Torres; D. Mateos; D. Fuertes; C. López; R. González; T. Lapionok; M. Herreras-Giralda; M. Herreras-Giralda; O. Dubovik; Á. M. de Frutos
Published in: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2022, ISSN 1867-8548
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/amt-15-407-2022

Combined sun-photometer–lidar inversion: lessons learned duringthe EARLINET/ACTRIS COVID-19 campaign

Author(s): Alexandra Tsekeri, Anna Gialitaki, Marco Di Paolantonio, Davide Dionisi, Gian Luigi Liberti, Alnilam Fernandes, Artur Szkop, Aleksander Pietruczuk, Daniel Pérez-Ramírez, Maria J. Granados Muñoz, Juan Luis Guerrero-Rascado, Lucas Alados-Arboledas, Diego Bermejo Pantaleón, Juan Antonio Bravo-Aranda, Anna Kampouri, Eleni Marinou, Vassilis Amiridis, Michael Sicard, Adolfo Comerón, Constantino Mu
Published in: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2023, ISSN 1867-8548
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/amt-16-6025-2023

Spectra of light reflected by aggregate structures of submicron particles

Author(s): Victor P. Tishkovets, Elena V. Petrova
Published in: Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, Issue 252, 2020, Page(s) 107116, ISSN 0022-4073
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2020.107116

Performance of a dust model to predict the vertical mass concentration of an extreme Saharan dust event in the Iberian Peninsula: Comparison with continuous, elastic, polarization-sensitive lidars

Author(s): Carmen Córdoba-Jabonero; Michaël Sicard; Ana del Águila; M. Jiménez; María Paz Zorzano; María Paz Zorzano
Published in: Atmospheric Environment, 2019, ISSN 1352-2310
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2019.116828

A Cross-Check of the Reflectance Models to Be Used in Interpretation of Observations of Regolith-Like Surfaces

Author(s): Victor P. Tishkovets; Elena V. Petrova
Published in: Frontiers in Remote Sensing, Issue 3, 2022, ISSN 2673-6187
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
DOI: 10.3389/frsen.2022.869527