Research Article

Forest Fire Smoke Layers Observed in the Free Troposphere over Portugal with a Multiwavelength Raman Lidar: Optical and Microphysical Properties

Figure 1

Fire hot spots detected by MODIS on board the Terra and Aqua satellites in the period from 15 to 18 October 2011 (http://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/firemap/). 72-hour backward trajectories arriving at Évora (black square) at the lidar measurement times, between 17 and 19 October 2011, at 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, and 4 km agl. For 18 and 19 October 2011 the colors are the same as for 17 October 2011.
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