Abstract

This paper generalizes the methodological questions and technical solutions of problems of the optical probing of the atmospheric aerosol from on board a flight laboratory, as well as the quantitative results of the measurements. The analytical dependences needed for modelling the stratification of the vertical profile of the aerosol as a spatially inhomogeneous dynamic system are presented.

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