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In this paper, a calibrated (UV, VIS) polarization elastic lidar (2\u03b2 + 2\u03b4) is used to remotely sense new particle formation events in the free troposphere in the presence of mineral dust particles. Using very efficient (UV, VIS) light polarization discriminators (1:107) and after robust calibration, the contribution of mineral dust particles to the co-polarized (UV, VIS) lidar channels could be removed, to reveal the backscattering coefficient of the newly nucleated particles after these numerous particles have grown to a size detectable with our lidar. Since our polarization and wavelength cross-talks are fully negligible, the observed variation in the (UV, VIS) particle backscattering time\u2013altitude maps could be related to variations in the particle microphysics. Hence, day and nighttime differences, at low and high dust loadings, were observed in agreement with the observed nucleation process promoted by mineral dust. While light backscattering is more sensitive to small-sized particles at the UV lidar wavelength of 355 nm, such new particle formation events are here for the first time also remotely sensed at the VIS lidar wavelength of 532 nm at which most polarization lidars operate. Moreover, by addressing the (UV, VIS) backscattering Angstrom exponent, we could discuss the particles\u2019 sizes addressed with our (UV, VIS) polarization lidar. As nucleation concerns the lowest modes of the particles\u2019 size distribution, such a methodology may then be applied to reveal the lowest particle sizes that a (UV, VIS) polarization lidar can address, thus improving our understanding of the vertical and temporal extent of nucleation in free troposphere, where measurements are rather seldom.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs11151761","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,7,26]],"date-time":"2019-07-26T08:45:39Z","timestamp":1564130739000},"page":"1761","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["Remote Sensing Observation of New Particle Formation Events with a (UV, VIS) Polarization Lidar"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1296-2349","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Alain","family":"Miffre","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"CNRS, Institut Lumi\u00e8re Mati\u00e8re, Universit\u00e9 Claude Bernard Lyon 1, University of Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2358-3467","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dana\u00ebl","family":"Cholleton","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"CNRS, Institut Lumi\u00e8re Mati\u00e8re, Universit\u00e9 Claude Bernard Lyon 1, University of Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France"}]},{"given":"Tahar","family":"Mehri","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"CNRS, Institut Lumi\u00e8re Mati\u00e8re, Universit\u00e9 Claude Bernard Lyon 1, University of Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8446-347X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Patrick","family":"Rairoux","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"CNRS, Institut Lumi\u00e8re Mati\u00e8re, Universit\u00e9 Claude Bernard Lyon 1, University of Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,7,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Stocker, T. 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