Jens Bösenberg

TL;DR: In this article, the spread of mineral particles over southwestern, western, and central Europe resulting from a strong Saharan dust outbreak in October 2001 was observed at 10 stations of the European Aerosol Research Lidar Network (EARLINET).

TL;DR: The European Aerosol Research Lidar Network (EARLINET) as mentioned in this paper was founded as a research project for establishing a quantitative, comprehensive, and statistically significant database for the horizontal, vertical, and tempo-ral distribution of aerosols on a continental scale.

TL;DR: More than 130 observation days of the horizontal and vertical extent of Saharan dust intrusions over Europe during the period May 2000 to December 2002 were studied by means of a coordinated lidar network in the frame of the European Aerosol Research Lidar Network (EARLINET) as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: An intercomparison of the algorithms used to retrieve aerosol extinction and backscatter starting from Raman lidar signals has been performed by 11 groups of lidar scientists involved in the European Aerosol Research Lidar Network and demonstrates that the data-handling procedures used by all the lidar groups provide satisfactory results.

TL;DR: The results show the necessity of making additional independent measurements, which can provide a suitable approximation of the lidar ratio, and prove in general, that the data evaluation schemes of the different groups of lidar systems work well.