Calibration of Raman lidar water vapor profiles by means of AERONET photometer observations and GDAS meteorological data

Dai, Guangyao; Althausen, Dietrich; Hofer, Julian; Engelmann, Ronny; Seifert, Patric; Bühl, Johannes; Mamouri, Rodanthi-Elisavet; Wu, Songhua; Ansmann, Albert

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-2735-2018

Articles | Volume 11, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-2735-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-2735-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 5

Research article

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08 May 2018

Research article |

| 08 May 2018

Calibration of Raman lidar water vapor profiles by means of AERONET photometer observations and GDAS meteorological data

Guangyao Dai, Dietrich Althausen, Julian Hofer, Ronny Engelmann, Patric Seifert, Johannes Bühl, Rodanthi-Elisavet Mamouri, Songhua Wu, and Albert Ansmann

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RC1: 'Review of 'Calibration of Raman lidar water vapor profiles by means of AERONET photometer observations and GDAS meteorological data'', Anonymous Referee #1, 11 Jan 2018
- AC1: 'Author response to RC1', Dietrich Althausen, 16 Mar 2018
RC2: 'review', Anonymous Referee #2, 18 Feb 2018
- AC2: 'Author response to RC2', Dietrich Althausen, 16 Mar 2018

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AR by Dietrich Althausen on behalf of the Authors (16 Mar 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (27 Mar 2018) by Vassilis Amiridis

AR by Dietrich Althausen on behalf of the Authors (29 Mar 2018)

Short summary

The presented calibration method grants access to quality approved automated atmospheric water vapor profiles from lidar measurements. This method uses the Raman lidar data from the water vapor and nitrogen channels and additional data from sun photometer and GDAS. The retrieved water vapor profiles agree well with respective profiles from radio soundings. The paper describes this method and shows results from the CyCARE (Cyprus Cloud Aerosol and Rain Experiment) campaign in 2015–2017.