S. Kreipl

TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that forest fire emissions polluted large regions over Europe during the second half of August 1998, and the resulting aerosol lamina over Europe is captured well by the model.

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 the framework of the European Aerosol Research Lidar Network to Establish an Aerosolsol Climatology (EARLINET), 19 aerosol lidar systems from 11 European countries were compared, although some had to be modified to improve their performance.

TL;DR: The German AerosolLidar Network has attempted to establish a climatologicaldataset for the aerosolvertical distribution over several stations in a quantitati ve and coordinatedapproach as discussed by the authors.