ALICENET – an Italian network of automated lidar ceilometers for four-dimensional aerosol monitoring: infrastructure, data processing, and applications

Bellini, Annachiara; Diémoz, Henri; Di Liberto, Luca; Gobbi, Gian Paolo; Bracci, Alessandro; Pasqualini, Ferdinando; Barnaba, Francesca

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-6119-2024

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ALICENET – an Italian network of automated lidar ceilometers for four-dimensional aerosol monitoring: infrastructure, data processing, and applications

Annachiara Bellini, Henri Diémoz, Luca Di Liberto, Gian Paolo Gobbi, Alessandro Bracci, Ferdinando Pasqualini, and Francesca Barnaba

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-6119-2024-supplement

Data sets

Aerosol products presented in "ALICENET – an Italian network of automated lidar ceilometers for four-dimensional aerosol monitoring: infrastructure, data processing, and applications" ALICENET https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13332405

Short summary

We provide a comprehensive overview of the Italian Automated LIdar-CEilometer network, ALICENET, describing its infrastructure, aerosol retrievals, and main applications. The supplement covers data-processing details. We include examples of output products, comparisons with independent data, and examples of the network capability to provide near-real-time aerosol fields over Italy. ALICENET is expected to benefit the sectors of air quality, radiative budget/solar energy, and aviation safety.