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Quality assessment of aerosol lidars at 1064 nm in the framework of the MEMO campaign
Longlong Wang
School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China
School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China
Zhichao Bu
Meteorological Observation Center, China Meteorological Administration, 46 South Zhongguan Road, Beijing 100081, China
Anzhou Wang
School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China
Song Mao
School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China
School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China
Detlef Müller
School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China
Yubao Chen
Meteorological Observation Center, China Meteorological Administration, 46 South Zhongguan Road, Beijing 100081, China
Xuan Wang
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China
Wuhan Institute of Quantum Technology, Wuhan 430206, China
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Short summary
We report the lidar inter-comparison results with a reference lidar at 1064 nm, in order to homogenize the signals provided by different lidar systems for establishing a lidar network in China. The profiles of relative deviation of lidar signals are less than 5 % within 500–2000 m and 10 % within 2000–5000 m, increasing confidence in the reliability of the signals provided by each lidar system in the channels at 1064 nm for a future lidar network in China.
We report the lidar inter-comparison results with a reference lidar at 1064 nm, in order to...
