EARLINET: the European Aerosol Research Lidar Network for the Aerosol Climatology on Continental Scale
Gelsomina Pappalardo
(1)
,
Jens Bösenberg
(2)
,
Aldo Amodeo
(1)
,
Albert Ansmann
(3)
,
Arnoud Apituley
(4)
,
Lucas Alados Arboledas
(5)
,
Dimitris Balis
(6)
,
Christine Böckmann
(7)
,
Anatoly Chaikovsky
(8)
,
Adolfo Comeron
(9)
,
Giuseppe d'Amico
(1)
,
Volker Freudenthaler
(10)
,
Ivan Grigorov
(11)
,
Georg Hansen
(12)
,
Holger Linnè
(2)
,
Stefan Kinne
(2)
,
Ina Mattis
(3)
,
Lucia Mona
(1)
,
Detlef Mueller
(3)
,
Valentin Mitev
(13)
,
Doina Nicolae
(14)
,
Alexandros Papayannis
(15)
,
Maria Rita Perrone
(16)
,
Aleksander Pietruczuk
(17)
,
Manuel Pujadas
(18)
,
Jean-Philippe Putaud
(19)
,
François Ravetta
(20)
,
Vincenzo Rizi
(21)
,
Valentin Simeonov
(22)
,
Nicola Spinelli
(23)
,
Thomas Trickl
(24)
,
Ulla Wandinger
(3)
,
Matthias Wiegner
(10)
1
IMAA -
Istituto di Metodologie per l'Analisi Ambientale
2 MPI-M - Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie
3 TROPOS - Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research
4 RIVM - National Institute for Public Health and the Environment [Bilthoven]
5 UGR - Universidad de Granada = University of Granada
6 Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics [Thessaloniki]
7 Institut für Mathematik [Potsdam]
8 B. I. Stepanov Institute of Physics [Minsk]
9 UPC - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya = Université polytechnique de Catalogne [Barcelona]
10 LMU - Ludwig Maximilian University [Munich] = Ludwig Maximilians Universität München
11 Institute of Electronics [Sofia]
12 NILU - Norwegian Institute for Air Research
13 CSEM - Centre Suisse d'Electronique et Microtechnique SA
14 INOE - National Institute of Research and Development for Optoelectronics
15 NTUA - National Technical University of Athens [Athens]
16 Università del Salento [Lecce]
17 Institute of Geophysics [Warsaw]
18 CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas
19 IES - JRC Institute for Environment and Sustainability
20 SA - Service d'aéronomie
21 Dipartimento di Fisica [L'Aquila]
22 EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
23 CNISM - Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze FIsiche della Materia
24 IMK-IFU - Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung - Atmosphärische Umweltforschung
2 MPI-M - Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie
3 TROPOS - Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research
4 RIVM - National Institute for Public Health and the Environment [Bilthoven]
5 UGR - Universidad de Granada = University of Granada
6 Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics [Thessaloniki]
7 Institut für Mathematik [Potsdam]
8 B. I. Stepanov Institute of Physics [Minsk]
9 UPC - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya = Université polytechnique de Catalogne [Barcelona]
10 LMU - Ludwig Maximilian University [Munich] = Ludwig Maximilians Universität München
11 Institute of Electronics [Sofia]
12 NILU - Norwegian Institute for Air Research
13 CSEM - Centre Suisse d'Electronique et Microtechnique SA
14 INOE - National Institute of Research and Development for Optoelectronics
15 NTUA - National Technical University of Athens [Athens]
16 Università del Salento [Lecce]
17 Institute of Geophysics [Warsaw]
18 CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas
19 IES - JRC Institute for Environment and Sustainability
20 SA - Service d'aéronomie
21 Dipartimento di Fisica [L'Aquila]
22 EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
23 CNISM - Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze FIsiche della Materia
24 IMK-IFU - Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung - Atmosphärische Umweltforschung
Arnoud Apituley
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- ORCID : 0000-0001-8821-6348
François Ravetta
- Fonction : Auteur
- PersonId : 971908
- ORCID : 0000-0002-4264-6235
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Résumé
Lidar techniques represent the most suitable tool to obtain information on the aerosol vertical distribution and therefore to close this kind of observational gap. Lidar networks are fundamental to study aerosol on large spatial scale and to investigate transport and modification phenomena. These are the motivations why EARLINET, the European Aerosol Research Lidar Network, was established in 2000, as a research program funded by the European Commission in the frame of the 5th framework program. After the end of the project, the network activity continued on the base of a voluntary association. At present, EARLINET consists of 25 lidar stations distributed over Europe. On March 2006, the EC Project EARLINET-ASOS (Advanced Sustainable Observation System) started on the base of the EARLINET infrastructure. This infrastructure project will enhance the operation of the network. EARLINET data can contribute significantly to the quantification of aerosol concentrations, radiative properties, long-range transport and budget, and prediction of future trends on European and global scale. It can also contribute to improve model treatment on a wide range of scales and to a better exploitation of present and future satellite data