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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-471-2019
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-471-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
| 
25 Jan 2019
Research article |
| 25 Jan 2019
| 25 Jan 2019
Aerosol backscatter profiles from ceilometers: validation of water vapor correction in the framework of CeiLinEx2015
Matthias Wiegner
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Meteorologisches Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Theresienstraße 37, 80333 München, Germany
Ina Mattis
Deutscher Wetterdienst, Meteorologisches Observatorium Hohenpeißenberg, Hohenpeißenberg, Germany
Margit Pattantyús-Ábrahám
Deutscher Wetterdienst, Meteorologisches Observatorium Hohenpeißenberg, Hohenpeißenberg, Germany
now at: Federal Office for Radiation Protection, Department of Environmental Radiation, Neuherberg, Germany
Juan Antonio Bravo-Aranda
Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, École Polytechnique, CNRS, Université Paris–Saclay, Palaiseau, France
now at: University of Granada, Granada, Spain
Yann Poltera
MeteoSwiss, Payerne, Switzerland
now at: Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Alexander Haefele
MeteoSwiss, Payerne, Switzerland
Maxime Hervo
MeteoSwiss, Payerne, Switzerland
Ulrich Görsdorf
Deutscher Wetterdienst, Meteorologisches Observatorium Lindenberg, Lindenberg, Germany
Ronny Leinweber
Deutscher Wetterdienst, Meteorologisches Observatorium Lindenberg, Lindenberg, Germany
Josef Gasteiger
Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Martial Haeffelin
Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, École Polytechnique, CNRS, Université Paris–Saclay, Palaiseau, France
Frank Wagner
Deutscher Wetterdienst, Meteorologisches Observatorium Hohenpeißenberg, Hohenpeißenberg, Germany
now at: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), IMK–TRO, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
Jan Cermak
Department of Geography, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany
now at: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe, Germany
now at: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Karlsruhe, Germany
Katerina Komínková
Global Change Research Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
Mike Brettle
Chartered Meteorologist: Shepshed, UK
Christoph Münkel
Vaisala GmbH, Hamburg, Germany
Kornelia Pönitz
G. Lufft Mess- und Regeltechnik GmbH, Fellbach, Germany
Data sets
The Dataset of the CeiLinEx2015 Ceilometer-Inter-comparison Experiment, Version v001 Margit Pattantyús-Ábrahám, Ina Mattis, Robert Begbie, Juan Antonio Bravo-Aranda, Mike Brettle, Jan Cermak, Marc-Antoine Drouin, Alexander Geiß, Ulrich Görsdorf, Alexander Haefele, Martial Haeffelin, Maxime Hervo, Kateřina Komínková, Ronny Leinweber, Christoph Münkel, Kornelia Pönitz, Joshua Vande Hey, Frank Wagner, and Matthias Wiegner https://doi.org/10.5676/DWD/CEILINEX2015
Short summary
Many ceilometers are influenced by water vapor absorption in the spectral range around 910 nm. Thus, a correction is required to retrieve aerosol optical properties. Validation of this correction scheme was performed in the framework of CeiLinEx2015 for several ceilometers with good agreement for Vaisala's CL51 ceilometer. For future applications we recommend monitoring the emitted wavelength and providing
darkmeasurements on a regular basis to be able to correct for signal artifacts.
Many ceilometers are influenced by water vapor absorption in the spectral range around 910 nm....
