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EARLINET: towards an advanced sustainable European aerosol lidar network |
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G. Pappalardo, A. Amodeo, A. Apituley, A. Comerón, V. Freudenthaler, H. Linné, A. Ansmann, J. Bösenberg, G. D'Amico, I. Mattis, L. Mona, U. Wandinger, V. Amiridis, L. Alados-Arboledas, D. Nicolae, M. Wiegner |
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Englisch
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1867-1381
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In: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques ; 7, no. 8 ; Nr. 7, no. 8 (2014-08-08), S.2389-2409 |
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250115864
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/amt-7-2389-2014.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
The European Aerosol Research Lidar Network, EARLINET, was founded in 2000 as
a research project for establishing a quantitative, comprehensive, and
statistically significant database for the horizontal, vertical, and
temporal distribution of aerosols on a continental scale. Since then
EARLINET has continued to provide the most extensive collection of
ground-based data for the aerosol vertical distribution over Europe.
This paper gives an overview of the network's main developments since 2000
and introduces the dedicated EARLINET special issue, which reports on the
present innovative and comprehensive technical solutions and scientific
results related to the use of advanced lidar remote sensing techniques for
the study of aerosol properties as developed within the network in the last
13 years.
Since 2000, EARLINET has developed greatly in terms of number of stations
and spatial distribution: from 17 stations in 10 countries in 2000 to 27
stations in 16 countries in 2013. EARLINET has developed greatly also in
terms of technological advances with the spread of advanced multiwavelength
Raman lidar stations in Europe. The developments for the quality assurance
strategy, the optimization of instruments and data processing, and
the dissemination of data have contributed to a significant improvement of the
network towards a more sustainable observing system, with an increase in the
observing capability and a reduction of operational costs.
Consequently, EARLINET data have already been extensively used for many
climatological studies, long-range transport events, Saharan dust outbreaks,
plumes from volcanic eruptions, and for model evaluation and satellite data
validation and integration.
Future plans are aimed at continuous measurements and near-real-time data delivery in close cooperation with other ground-based networks, such as
in the ACTRIS (Aerosols, Clouds, and Trace gases Research InfraStructure
Network) www.actris.net, and with the modeling and satellite
community, linking the research community with the operational world, with
the aim of establishing of the atmospheric part of the European component
of the integrated global observing system. |
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