Synergy of terrestrial and satellite measurements for study of atmospheric aerosol in the Eurasian Economic Union’s countries

The development of the scientific, methodological and technical basis for an integrated terrestrial and satellite monitoring of the atmosphere and the Earth's surface over the Eurasian continent is the goal of an international project carried out by the scientific organizations of Belarus, Russia, Mongolia and Vietnam with the support of the Eurasian Association for the Support of Scientific Research (EAPS). The report presents the results of testing the method of coordinated terrestrial and satellite, lidar and radiometric measurements to study altitude profiles of aerosol parameters in the areas of AERONET stations in the countries participating in the project. The data of the satellite lidar CALIOP and the solar radiometer were processed by the algorithms developed in the frame of combined lidar and radiometric sounding technique (LRS). Coordinated multiwavelength lidar measurements were carried out at remote sensing stations in IPNASB (Minsk, Belarus), IAO (Tomsk, Russia) and KRSU (Teplokluchenka, Kyrgyzstan) to validate the results of satellite data processing.