The aerosols' vertical distributions, such as 532 nm total attenuated backscatter and depolarization ratio combined with cloud optical depth and dust parcel trajectorory are conducted during one heavy dust storm in Hexi Corridor in April 2009 using the satellite products of CALIPSO and CloudSat and HYSPLIT model. The dust aerosols could reach the altitude of 11 km and their 532 nm total attenuated backscattering coefficients could be as high as 6×10 −2 . The HYSPLIT shows that this heavy dust storm was transported along the northern margin of mainland.
['Zuqin Deng', 'Lei Zhang']
Vertical distributions of dust aerosols derived from CALIPSO and CloudSat observations in Hexi Corridor