Articles | Volume 11, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-1119-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-1119-2018
Research article
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26 Feb 2018
Research article |  | 26 Feb 2018

Experimental techniques for the calibration of lidar depolarization channels in EARLINET

Livio Belegante, Juan Antonio Bravo-Aranda, Volker Freudenthaler, Doina Nicolae, Anca Nemuc, Dragos Ene, Lucas Alados-Arboledas, Aldo Amodeo, Gelsomina Pappalardo, Giuseppe D'Amico, Francesco Amato, Ronny Engelmann, Holger Baars, Ulla Wandinger, Alexandros Papayannis, Panos Kokkalis, and Sérgio N. Pereira

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Data for publication on calibration of lidar depolarization studies - AMT paper (Version 1.0.0) L. Belegante, J. A. Bravo-Aranda, V. Freudenthaler, D. Nicolae, A. Nemuc, D. Ene, L. Alados-Arboledas, A. Amodeo, G. Pappalardo, G. D'Amico, F. Amato, R. Engelmann, H. Baars, U. Wandinger, A. Papayannis, P. Kokkalis, and S. N. Pereira https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1158435

EARLINET aerosol lidar profiles ACTRIS/EARLINET http://actris.nilu.no

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Short summary
This paper presents different depolarization calibration procedures used to improve the quality of the depolarization data. The results illustrate a significant improvement of the depolarization lidar products for all the selected EARLINET lidar instruments. The calibrated volume and particle depolarization profiles at 532 nm show values that fall within a range that is accepted in the literature. The depolarization accuracy estimate at 532 nm is better than ±0.03 for all cases.