SPALINET: The Spanish and Portuguese aerosol lidar network

TLDR: In this paper, a network of Spanish and Portuguese aerosol lidars (SPALINET) was created to support the EARLINET-ASOS European project, where six out of the ten systems have been successfully intercompared, seven elastic algorithms and six Raman algorithms have also been validated.

Abstract: espanolA fin de extender y reforzar las acciones de la red Europea EARLINET (financiada por el proyecto europeo EARLINET-ASOS), se creo una red hispano-portuguesa de lidares de aerosoles (SPALINET). En los tres primeros anos del proyecto seis de los 10 sistemas lidar han sido intercomparados con exito, siete algoritmos de inversion elastica han sido validados, asi como seis algoritmos de inversion Raman. En la actualidad la red esta estableciendo nuevos objetivos cientificos comunes a todos los miembros a fin de poder realizar medidas coordinadas. Este trabajo presenta el contexto cientifico y una descripcion de SPALINET, asi como los resultados de los tres primeros anos de actividad. EnglishTo extend and reinforce the action of the European network EARLINET (supported by the EARLINET-ASOS European project), a network of Spanish and Portuguese aerosol lidars (SPALINET) was created. In the first three years of the project six out of the ten systems have been successfully intercompared, seven elastic algorithms and six Raman algorithms have also been validated. Now the network focuses on future scientific objectives aiming at performing coordinated measurements. This paper presents the scientific context and a description of the network, as well as the results from the first three years of activity.