https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611927006
Ceilometer Aerosol Profiling versus Raman Lidar in the Frame of Interact Campaign of Actris
1 Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Metodologie per l’Analisi Ambientale (CNR-IMAA), C.da S. Loja, 85050 Tito Scalo, Potenza, Italy.
2 University of Leicester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Earth Observation Science Group, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, United Kingdom.
* Corresponding author: fabio.madonna@imaa.cnr.it
Published online: 7 June 2016
In this paper, multi-wavelength Raman lidar measurements are used to investigate the capability of ceilometers to provide reliable information about atmospheric aerosol properties through the INTERACT (INTERcomparison of Aerosol and Cloud Tracking) campaign carried out at the CNR-IMAA Atmospheric Observatory (760 m a.s.l., 40.60 N, 15.72 E), in the framework of ACTRIS (Aerosol Clouds Trace gases Research InfraStructure) FP7 project. This work is the first time that three different commercial ceilometers with an advanced Raman lidar are compared over a period of six month. The comparison of the attenuated backscatter coefficient profiles from a multi-wavelength Raman lidar and three ceilometers (CHM15k, CS135s, CT25K) reveals differences due to the expected discrepancy in the SNR but also due to effect of changes in the ambient temperature on the stability of ceilometer calibration over short and mid-term. Technological improvements of ceilometers towards their operational use in the monitoring of the atmospheric aerosol in the low and free troposphere are likely needed.
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