Climatology 2000-2010: data from all EARLINET stations: various variables in b-files or e-files

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The EARLINET publishing group 2000-2010 et al.

Dataset
Summary
EARLINET climatological lidar observations are performed on a regular
schedule of one daytime measurement per week around noon (on Monday), when the
boundary layer is usually well developed, and two night-time measurements per week
(on Monday and Thursday), with low background light, in order to perform Raman
extinction measurements. This regular schedule for observations minimizes the bias
in the dataset possibly related to specific measurement conditions. The resulting
dataset is used to obtain unbiased data for climatological studies.

This dataset contains profiles of aerosol extinction, backscatter and lidar ratio.
Several aerosol extinction/backscatter datasets can be present for the same
climatological measurement in order to provide profiles either with a better temporal
resolution or with an extended height range by using a larger temporal average.

This is by far the largest dataset on the aerosol vertical distribution, and it is
the only one which is collected systematically and is covering a whole continent.
Project
EARLINET (A European Aerosol Research Lidar Network to Establish an Aerosol Climatology)
Location(s)
Europe
Additional Information
EARLINET general introduction (pdf)
EARLINET Publishing Group 2000-2010 (pdf)
EARLINET list of variables
Spatial Coverage
Longitude -8 to 29 Latitude 37.2 to 54
Temporal Coverage
2000-04-01 to 2010-12-31 (calendrical)
Use constraints
For scientific use only
Data Catalog
World Data Center for Climate
Access constraints
registered users
Size
71.95 MiB (75446964 Byte)
Format
netCDF.zip
Status
completely archived
Creation Date
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Cite as
[ Derived from parent entry - See data hierarchy tab ]
The EARLINET publishing group 2000-2010; Adam, Mariana; Alados-Arboledas, Lucas; Althausen, Dietrich; Amiridis, V.; Amodeo, Aldo; Ansmann, Albert; Apituley, Arnoud; Arshinov, Yuri; Balis, Dimitris; Belegante, Livio; Bobrovnikov, Sergey; Boselli, Antonella; Bravo-Aranda, Juan Antonio; Bösenberg, Jens; Carstea, Emil; Chaikovsky, Anatoly; Comerón, Adolfo; D'Amico, Giuseppe; Daou, David; Dreischuh, Tanja; Engelmann, Ronny; Finger, Fanny; Freudenthaler, Volker; Garcia-Vizcaino, David; Fernandez García, Alfonso Javier; Geiß, Alexander; Giannakaki, Elina; Giehl, Helmuth; Giunta, Aldo; de Graaf, Martin; Granados-Muñoz, Maria José; Grein, Matthias; Grigorov, Ivan; Groß, Silke; Gruening, Carsten; Guerrero-Rascado, Juan Luis; Haeffelin, Martial; Hayek, Theresa; Iarlori, Marco; Kanitz, Thomas; Kokkalis, Panayotis; Linné, Holger; Madonna, Fabio; Mamouri, Rodanthi-Elisavet; Matthias, Volker; Mattis, Ina; Molero Menéndez, Francisco; Mitev, Valentin; Mona, Lucia; Morille, Yohann; Muñoz, Constantino; Müller, Anja; Müller, Detlef; Navas-Guzmán, Francisco; Nemuc, Anca; Nicolae, Doina; Pandolfi, Marco; Papayannis, Alex; Pappalardo, Gelsomina; Pelon, Jacques; Perrone, Maria Rita; Pietruczuk, Aleksander; Pisani, Gianluca; Potma, Charlos; Preißler, Jana; Pujadas, Manuel; Putaud, Jean; Radu, Cristian; Ravetta, Francois; Reigert, Andrew; Rizi, Vincenzo; Rocadenbosch, Francesc; Rodríguez, Alejandro; Sauvage, Laurent; Schmidt, Jörg; Schnell, Franziska; Schwarz, Anja; Seifert, Patric; Serikov, Ilya; Sicard, Michaël; Silva, Ana Maria; Simeonov, Valentin; Siomos, Nikos; Sirch, Tobias; Spinelli, Nicola; Stoyanov, Dimitar; Talianu, Camelia; Tesche, Matthias; De Tomasi, Ferdinando; Trickl, Thomas; Vaughan, Geraint; Volten, Hester; Wagner, Frank; Wandinger, Ulla; Wang, Xuan; Wiegner, Matthias; Wilson, Keith M. (2014). EARLINET climatology (2000-2010). World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ. https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/EN_Climatology_2000-2010

BibTeX RIS
Description
According to agreements dummy files (nc.zip) were created and inserted in the database
if data from timesteps were not delivered.
VariableCodeUnit
aerosol backscatter coefficient
Backscatter (EARLINET: 3)
m-1sr-1
aerosol extinction coefficient
Extinction (EARLINET: 5)
m-1
aerosol extinction-to-backscatter ratio
LidarRatio (EARLINET: 7)
sr
aerosol linear depolarization ratio
ParticleDepolarization (EARLINET: 11)
1
statistical uncertainty of aerosol backscatter
ErrorBackscatter (EARLINET: 4)
m-1sr-1
statistical uncertainty of aerosol extinction
ErrorExtinction (EARLINET: 6)
m-1
statistical uncertainty of aerosol linear depolarization ratio
ErrorParticleDepolarization (EARLINET: 12)
1
statistical uncertainty of lidar ratio
ErrorLidarRatio (EARLINET: 8)
sr
statistical uncertainty of volume linear depolarization ratio
ErrorVolumeDepolarization (EARLINET: 10)
1
top of convective boundary layer above sea level
MixingLayerHeight (EARLINET: 2)
m
top of dust layer above sea level
DustLayerHeight (EARLINET: 1)
m
volume linear depolarization ratio
VolumeDepolarization (EARLINET: 9)
1
Contact typePersonORCIDOrganization
Editor
Holger Linné
-
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Meteorologie
Editor
Lucia Mona
-
Leibniz-Institut für Troposphärenforschung e.V.
Editor
Gelsomina Pappalardo
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Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Editor
Ulla Wandinger
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Leibniz-Institut für Troposphärenforschung e.V.

Parent

EARLINET Climatology 2000-2010
Details

Parent project(s)

A European Aerosol Research Lidar Network to Establish an Aerosol Climatology

[Entry acronym: Climatology_2000-2010_all_stat] [Entry id: 2940940]