PollyXT and COSMO-MUSCAT data for "Investigating the link between mineral dust hematite content and intensive optical properties by means of lidar measurements and aerosol modelling"

The dataset contains 4 different files: 

For the single case example on the 24 August 2021 between 2:45 to 5:27 UTC in Mndelo, Cabo Verde:

-Mindelo-PollyXT_CPV-20210824_0245-0527-77smooth-info.txt : contains the information of the vertically retrieved optical properties from PollyXT lidar measurements. The information contained refers to the chosen retrieval times, vertical smoothing, and reference heights

-Mindelo-PollyXT_CPV-20210824_0245-0527-77smooth.txt : vertically retrieved optical properties per height.

-Mindelo-model_24aug.csv : COSMO-MUSCAT vertical results of dust and mineral mass concentrations per height. The columns that end with "int mass" correspond to the integrated mass per dust layer and columns that end with numbers correspond to different size bins. For reference to the size bins see Table 1 in Gómez Maqueo Anaya et al., 2024

Mutiple case studies:

-Mindelo-lidar-uvvisdiff_model.csv : Twenty-two case studies with the following order: first, the mean values of the lidar-derived optical properties, along with their corresponding retrieval times and heights that define the dust plume. This is followed by the POLIPHON (Mamouri and Ansmann, 2014, 2017) data. The mean values from dust and mineral mass concentrations from the model start with the model heights where the dust plumes were calculated. At the end of the dataset rows, the times from which the modeled mean values are calculated can be found.