Transcontinental aerosol transport
Aerosols may have a greater impact on patterns of overall rainfall and future climate change than previously thought. For example, the extensive pollution haze from Asia may be re-shaping rainfall patterns in Northern Australia. Recent climate modelling shows that there may be important effects on Southern hemisphere climate due to aerosol pollution from the Northern Hemisphere. These include an increase of rainfall certain areas, and an increase of air pressure over others, which may have contributed to less rainfall there. EZ Lidar can measure and detect different aerosol layers and post treatment using the backscattering trajectories enable to identify the original pollution source causing major climate changes.
Clouds and Aerosols properties
Aerosols influence climate through different pathways, directly on the
scattering and absorption of radiation, indirectly on the processes of
cloud formation and microphysics. Monitoring the global distribution of
aerosols is required to better understand the Earth climate changes
especially in order to slow the global warming and controlling the
emissions of light-absorbing particles. For this reason, the EZ Lidar ™
is a ground-based optical remote sensing instrument designed to
determine the vertical and horizontal properties of the atmosphere
because a bigger concentration in aerosol will be evident as an
increase or spike in the back-scattered signal profile, since, for
example, the water droplets that make up the cloud will produce a lot
of backscatter.