L. Komguem

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: 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.

TL;DR: In this paper, 19 aerosol lidar systems from 11 European countries were compared and the results were compared for height and ranges with high and low aerosol content, and some systems were additionally compared with sunphotometers and starphotometers.

TL;DR: In this paper, a statistical analysis concerning the vertical distribution of the volume light extinction coefficients of particles derived from Raman lidar measurements at 10 EARLINET stations is presented, where the profiles were measured on a fixed schedule with up to two measurements per week; they typically covered the height range from 500 m to 6000 m above ground level (agl).