EVALUATION OF AN ALGORITHM FOR THE DETERMINATION OF AEROSOL CONCENTRATION PROFILES USING COMBINED LIDAR AND SUN PHOTOMETER MEASUREMENTS

LiRIC is an inversion procedure frequently used in the EARLINET network that is able to obtain vertical aerosol concentration profiles, using measurements from two instruments: Lidar and sun photometer. In this paper, we propose a reimplementation of that algorithm in the free language Python. We also did some synthetic scenarios studies which shows the robustness and the proper functioning of the tool. Finally, we proceeded with a study in a real case scenario, under a registered event of biomass burning in the monitoring station of Villa Martelli.