Experimental techniques for the calibration of lidar depolarization channels in EARLINET

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

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-1119-2018

Articles | Volume 11, issue 2

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EARLINET, the European Aerosol Research Lidar Network

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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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RC1: 'Referee Comments on Experimental techniques for the calibration of lidar depolarization channels in EARLINET; L. Belegante et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 20 Jul 2017
- AC1: 'Answer to Anonymous Referee 1', Livio Belegante, 27 Sep 2017
RC2: 'review of Experimental techniques for the calibration of lidar depolarization channels in EARLINET', Anonymous Referee #3, 21 Jul 2017
- AC2: 'Answer to Anonymous Referee 2', Livio Belegante, 27 Sep 2017
RC3: 'Review to Belegante et al., 2017', Anonymous Referee #1, 22 Aug 2017
- AC3: 'Answer to Anonymous Referee 3', Livio Belegante, 27 Sep 2017
AC4: 'Updated version of the manuscript', Livio Belegante, 27 Sep 2017
- AC5: 'Second update of the Manuscript', Livio Belegante, 28 Sep 2017

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AR by Livio Belegante on behalf of the Authors (25 Oct 2017) Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (30 Oct 2017) by Albert Ansmann

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (31 Oct 2017)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (31 Oct 2017) by Albert Ansmann

AR by Livio Belegante on behalf of the Authors (08 Nov 2017) Author's response Manuscript

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.