EARLINET Climatology 2000-2015

doi:10.1594/WDCC/EARLINET_Climatology_2000-2015

The EARLINET publishing group 2000-2015 et al.

ExperimentDOI
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 ground based 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)
Contact
Lucia Mona (
 Lucia.Mona@nullimaa.cnr.it
)
Location(s)
EARLINET Stations (2000-2015)
Spatial Coverage
Longitude -8 to 35 Latitude 34 to 70
Temporal Coverage
2000-04-01 to 2015-12-31 (calendrical)
Use constraints
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Data Catalog
World Data Center for Climate
Size
242.86 MiB (254658560 Byte)
Format
tar-File(s)
Status
completely archived
Creation Date
Future Review Date
2028-06-29
Cite as
The EARLINET publishing group 2000-2015; Acheson, Karen; Adam, Mariana; Alados-Arboledas, Lucas; Althausen, Dietrich; Amato, Francesco; Amiridis, Vassilis; Amodeo, Aldo; Ansmann, Albert; Apituley, Arnoud; Arshinov, Yuri; Baars, Holger; Balis, Dimitris; Barragán, Rubén; Batet, Oscar; Belegante, Livio; Binietoglou, Ioannis; Bobrovnikov, Sergey; Bohlmann, Stephanie; Bortoli, Daniele; Boselli, Antonella; Bösenberg, Jens; Bravo-Aranda, Juan Antonio; Burlizzi, Pasquale; Carstea, Emil; Chaikovsky, Anatoly; Claramunt, PilarGumà; Comerón, Adolfo; D'Amico, Giuseppe; Daou, David; de Graaf, Martin; De Tomasi, Ferdinando; Deleva, Atanaska; Dreischuh, Tanja; Engelmann, Ronny; Filioglou, Maria; Finger, Fanny; Freudenthaler, Volker; Freville, Patrick; Fernandez García, Alfonso Javier; Garcia-Vizcaino, David; Gausa, Michael; Geiß, Alexander; Giannakaki, Elina; Giehl, Helmuth; Giunta, Aldo; Granados-Muñoz, Maria José; Grein, Matthias; Grigorov, Ivan; Groß, Silke; Gruening, Carsten; Guerrero-Rascado, Juan Luis; Hadjimitsis, Diofantos; Haefele, Alexander; Haeffelin, Martial; Hanssen, Ingrid; Hayek, Theresa; Iarlori, Marco; Kanitz, Thomas; Kokkalis, Panayotis; Komppula, Mika; Kumar, Dhiraj; Lange, Diego; Linné, Holger; Lopez, Miguel Angel; Madonna, Fabio; Mamouri, Rodanthi-Elisavet; Martucci, Giovanni; Matthias, Volker; Mattis, Ina; Molero Menéndez, Francisco; Mitev, Valentin; Mona, Lucia; Montoux, Nadege; Morille, Yohann; Müller, Anja; Müller, Detlef; Muñoz-Porcar, Constantino; Mylonaki, Maria; Navas-Guzmán, Francisco; Nemuc, Anca; Nicolae, Doina; Pandolfi, Marco; Papagiannopoulos, Nikolaos; Papayannis, Alex; Pappalardo, Gelsomina; Perrone, Maria Rita; Peshev, Zahari; Pietras, Christophe; Pietruczuk, Aleksander; Pisani, Gianluca; Potma, Charlos; Preißler, Jana; Pujadas, Manuel; Putaud, Jean Philippe; Radu, Cristian; Ravetta, Francois; Reba, Mohd Nadzri Md; Reigert, Andrew; Rizi, Vincenzo; Rocadenbosch, Francesc; Rodríguez-Gómez, Alejandro; Rosoldi, Marco; Ruth, Albert A.; Sauvage, Laurent; Schmidt, Jörg; Schnell, Franziska; Schwarz, Anja; Seifert, Patric; Serikov, Ilya; Sicard, Michaël; Silva, Ana Maria; Simeonov, Valentin; Siomos, Nikolaos; Sirch, Tobias; Spinelli, Nicola; Stachlewska, Iwona S.; Stoyanov, Dimitar; Szczepanik, Dominika; Talianu, Camelia; Tesche, Matthias; Tomás, Sergio; Trickl, Thomas; Volten, Hester; Voudouri, Kalliopi-Artemis; Wagner, Frank; Wandinger, Ulla; Wang, Xuan; Wiegner, Matthias; Wilson, Keith M. (2018). EARLINET Climatology 2000-2015. World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ. https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/EARLINET_Climatology_2000-2015

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Description
observation:Level 2b - Geophysical Variable - Basic Quality Control
The new EARLINET volumes contains respect to the old ones an update in terms of temporal coverage extending now until 2015, but more important the new volumes are updating also the old data content in terms of quality control of the data.
In particular, respect to the quality assurance procedures including instrument intercomparisons, intercomparison of the retrieval algorithms and some ad hoc tools for the continuous quality check of the instruments and algorithms, quality control procedures are run on the EARLINET database since February 2017. The current EARLINET data volumes include the results of the QC procedures on all the files reported into the EARLINET database since its beginning, updating the old EARLINET volumes publishing on CERA.
Automatic QC procedures checking the compliance of the data to specific technical aspects run on fly during the data submission phase. Off-line quality control procedures run systematically every 3 months on the whole database for further controls, mainly about the content of the data in terms of aerosol optical properties.
Each file contains information about the compliance of the file itself with specific quality control procedures established within the network. First of all, each file is labelled as compliant to: all the QCs, only the technical QCs, neither physical and technical implemented QC procedures. The precise information about the compliance/not compliance to each specific QC tests is reported in additional variables for technical and physical quality control procedures. A full documentation describing the quality control procedure is reported at the EARLINET website https://www.earlinet.org/index.php?id=125
The instruments and the algorithms used within the network have been intercompared and assessed. Relevant publications are reported in the references.
Description
According to agreements dummy files (nc.zip) were created and inserted in the database if data from timesteps were not delivered.
Description
Summary:
Findable: 6 of 7 level;
Accessible: 2 of 3 level;
Interoperable: 3 of 4 level;
Reusable: 5 of 10 level
Method
F-UJI online v2.2.1 automated
Method Description
Checks performed by WDCC. Metrics documentation: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4081213 Metric Version: metrics_v0.5
Method Url
Result Date
2022-12-06
Result Date
2018-10-24
Description
1. Number of data sets is correct and > 0: passed;
2. Size of every data set is > 0: passed;
3. The data sets and corresponding metadata are accessible: passed;
4. The data sizes are controlled and correct: passed;
5. The temporal coverage description (metadata) is consistent to the data: passed;
6. The format is correct: passed;
7. Variable description and data are consistent: passed
Method
WDCC-TQA checklist
Method Description
Checks performed by WDCC. The list of TQA metrics are documented in the 'WDCC User Guide for Data Publication' Chapter 8.1.1
Method Url
Result Date
2018-10-23
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[1] DOI Pappalardo, G.; Amodeo, A.; Apituley, A.; Comeron, A.; Freudenthaler, V.; Linné, H.; Ansmann, A.; Bösenberg, J.; D'Amico, G.; Mattis, I.; Mona, L.; Wandinger, U.; Amiridis, V.; Alados-Arboledas, L.; Nicolae, D.; Wiegner, M. (2014). EARLINET: towards an advanced sustainable European aerosol lidar network. doi:10.5194/amt-7-2389-2014
[2] DOI Wandinger, Ulla; Freudenthaler, Volker; Baars, Holger; Amodeo, Aldo; Engelmann, Ronny; Mattis, Ina; Groß, Silke; Pappalardo, Gelsomina; Giunta, Aldo; D'Amico, Giuseppe; Chaikovsky, Anatoli; Osipenko, Fiodor; Slesar, Alexander; Nicolae, Doina; Belegante, Livio; Talianu, Camelia; Serikov, Ilya; Linné, Holger; Jansen, Friedhelm; Apituley, Arnoud; Wilson, Keith M.; de Graaf, Martin; Trickl, Thomas; Giehl, Helmut; Adam, Mariana; Comerón, Adolfo; Muñoz-Porcar, Constantino; Rocadenbosch, Francesc; Sicard, Michaël; Tomás, Sergio; Lange, Diego; Kumar, Dhiraj; Pujadas, Manuel; Molero, Francisco; Fernández, Alfonso J.; Alados-Arboledas, Lucas; Bravo-Aranda, Juan Antonio; Navas-Guzmán, Francisco; Guerrero-Rascado, Juan Luis; Granados-Muñoz, María José; Preißler, Jana; Wagner, Frank; Gausa, Michael; Grigorov, Ivan; Stoyanov, Dimitar; Iarlori, Marco; Rizi, Vincenco; Spinelli, Nicola; Boselli, Antonella; Wang, Xuan; Lo Feudo, Teresa; Perrone, Maria Rita; De Tomasi, Ferdinando; Burlizzi, Pasquale. (2016). EARLINET instrument intercomparison campaigns: overview on strategy and results. doi:10.5194/amt-9-1001-2016
[3] DOI Freudenthaler, Volker. (2016). About the effects of polarising optics on lidar signals and the Δ90 calibration. doi:10.5194/amt-9-4181-2016
[4] DOI Pappalardo, Gelsomina; Amodeo, Aldo; Pandolfi, Marco; Wandinger, Ulla; Ansmann, Albert; Bösenberg, Jens; Matthias, Volker; Amiridis, Vassilis; De Tomasi, Ferdinando; Frioud, Max; Iarlori, Marco; Komguem, Leonce; Papayannis, Alexandros; Rocadenbosch, Francesc; Wang, Xuan. (2004). Aerosol lidar intercomparison in the framework of the EARLINET project 3 Raman lidar algorithm for aerosol extinction, backscatter, and lidar ratio. doi:10.1364/AO.43.005370
[5] DOI Böckmann, Christine; Wandinger, Ulla; Ansmann, Albert; Bösenberg, Jens; Amiridis, Vassilis; Boselli, Antonella; Delaval, Arnaud; De Tomasi, Ferdinando; Frioud, Max; Grigorov, Ivan Videnov; Hågård, Arne; Horvat, Matej; Iarlori, Marco; Komguem, Leonce; Kreipl, Stephan; Larchevêque, Gilles; Matthias, Volker; Papayannis, Alexandros; Pappalardo, Gelsomina; Rocadenbosch, Francesc; Rodrigues, José António; Schneider, Johannes; Shcherbakov, Valery; Wiegner, Matthias. (2004). Aerosol lidar intercomparison in the framework of the EARLINET project 2 Aerosol backscatter algorithms. doi:10.1364/AO.43.000977
[6] DOI Pappalardo, G.; Amodeo, A.; Apituley, A.; Comeron, A.; Freudenthaler, V.; Linné, H.; Ansmann, A.; Bösenberg, J.; D'Amico, G.; Mattis, I.; Mona, L.; Wandinger, U.; Amiridis, V.; Alados-Arboledas, L.; Nicolae, D.; Wiegner, M. (2014). EARLINET: towards an advanced sustainable European aerosol lidar network. doi:10.5194/amtd-7-2929-2014
[7] DOI Wandinger, U.; Freudenthaler, V.; Baars, H.; Amodeo, A.; Engelmann, R.; Mattis, I.; Groß, S.; Pappalardo, G.; Giunta, A.; D'Amico, G.; Chaikovsky, A.; Osipenko, F.; Slesar, A.; Nicolae, D.; Belegante, L.; Talianu, C.; Serikov, I.; Linné, H.; Jansen, F.; Apituley, A.; Wilson, K. M.; de Graaf, M.; Trickl, T.; Giehl, H.; Adam, M.; Comerón, A.; Muñoz, C.; Rocadenbosch, F.; Sicard, M.; Tomás, S.; Lange, D.; Kumar, D.; Pujadas, M.; Molero, F.; Fernández, A. J.; Alados-Arboledas, L.; Bravo-Aranda, J. A.; Navas-Guzmán, F.; Guerrero-Rascado, J. L.; Granados-Muñoz, M. J.; Preißler, J.; Wagner, F.; Gausa, M.; Grigorov, I.; Stoyanov, D.; Iarlori, M.; Rizi, V.; Spinelli, N.; Boselli, A.; Wang, X.; Lo Feudo, T.; Perrone, M. R.; De Tomasi, F.; Burlizzi, P. (2015). EARLINET instrument intercomparison campaigns: overview on strategy and results. doi:10.5194/amtd-8-10473-2015
[8] DOI Freudenthaler, Volker. (2016). About the effects of polarising optics on lidar signals and the Δ90-calibration. doi:10.5194/amt-2015-338

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[Entry acronym: EARLINET_Climatology_2000-2015] [Entry id: 3624485]