Alexandros Papayannis
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About
Alexandros Papayannis is a leading figure in atmospheric aerosol research, specializing in the remote sensing of aerosol properties using lidar and sun photometer synergy. His most significant contribution is the development of the Lidar-Radiometer Inversion Code (LIRIC), a groundbreaking algorithm for retrieving vertical profiles of aerosol concentration from combined lidar and radiometric data. This work, detailed in his highly cited 2016 paper (139 citations), has become a cornerstone for the EARLINET community. Papayannis has profoundly advanced our understanding of long-range aerosol transport, notably through his seminal study of the 2006 Saharan dust event during SAMUM (63 citations) and his characterization of volcanic particles from the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption over Athens (45 citations). He has also been instrumental in validating aerosol climatologies, demonstrating consistency between EARLINET and AERONET observations over Thessaloniki (42 citations). His research, spanning ground-based, satellite, and modeling approaches, provides critical insights into the optical, microphysical, and mass properties of dust, volcanic, and urban aerosols, making him a key authority in aerosol remote sensing and atmospheric physics.
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- 7A Four-Year Lidar–Sun Photometer Aerosol Study at São Paulo, Brazil8 citations · 2008
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