Aerosol Characterization Based on Graphical Method of Gobbi Diagrams

A practical graphical approach for translating å and its spectral curvature (Δå) into estimates of fine-mode aerosol radius and its contribution to total AOT was proposed by Gobbi et al. (2007). In the present study, we utilize AERONET Version 3 Level 3 data—specifically lidar ratio and depolarization ratio products—to evaluate the potential of this graphical method for aerosol type classification.