https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611919002
EARLINET: 12-year of Aerosol Profiling over Europe
1 Istituto di Metodologie per l’Analisi Ambientale CNR-IMAA, C.da S. Loja, I-85050 Tito Scalo, Potenza, Italy,
2 Andalusian Institute for Earth System Research. IISTA-CEAMA, Universidad de Granada, Spain
3 National Observatory of Athens, IAASARS, Athens, Greece
4 KNMI - Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, The Bilt, The Netherlands
5 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
6 Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
7 CETEMPS/Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche e Chimiche - Università Degli Studi dell’Aquila, Italy
8 Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Hamburg, Germany
9 National Institute of R&D for Optoelectronics, Magurele-Bucharest, Romania
10 National Technical University of Athens, Physics Department, Athens, Greece
11 Università del Salento, Department of Mathematics and Physics, Lecce, Italy
12 Leibniz-Institut für Troposphärenforschung, Leipzig, Germany
13 Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze Fisiche della Materia, Napoli, Italy
* Email: lucia.mona@imaa.cnr.it
Published online: 7 June 2016
EARLINET has been collecting high quality aerosol optical profiles over Europe since 2000. The comparison with automatic collected dataset of aerosol optical depth (AOD) from AERONET and MODIS demonstrates the effectiveness of EARLINET regular measurement schedule for climatological studies. The analysis of optical properties in the local boundary layer indicates that the general decrease of AOD observed by different platforms over Europe in the last decade could be due to the modification of aerosol properties (towards less absorbing and larger particles) in the lower troposphere.
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