Latin AmericanLidarNetwork(LALINET) for aerosol research: Diagnosis on network instrumentation

EDUARDO LANDULFO; BORIS BARJA; RENATA FACUNDES DA COSTA; DIEGO ALVÉS GOUVEIA; FÁBIO JULIANO DA SILVA LOPES; WALKER MORINOBU NAKAEMA; MAURICIO MÚNERA; JUAN VICENTE PALLOTA; PABLO RISTORI; MARIA FERNANDA SÁNCHEZ; JUAN CARLOS ANTUÑA; ÁLVARO EFRAIN BASTIDAS; RENÉ ESTEVAN; CRISTOFER JIMÉNEZ; ELENA MONTILLA-ROSERO; DANIEL NISPERUZA; LIDIA OTERO; EZEQUIEL PAWELKO; PATRICIA FERRINI RODRIGUES; ANTONIETA SILVA; JUAN LUISGUERRERO-RASCADO; HENRIQUE DE MELO JORGE BARBOSA; ANDRÉS ESTEBAN BEDOYA; RICARDO FORNO; ELIANE GONÇALVES LARROZA; GREGORI DE ARRUDA MOREIRA; DAIRO ALEGRIA; SEBASTIÁN PAPANDREA; EDUARDO JAIME QUEL; JACOBO SALVADOR

Journal ofAtmosphericandSolar-TerrestrialPhysics

Inst. of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Earth and Space Sciences Dept., University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), 405 Hilgard Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, USA

Lugar: Los Angeles; Año: 2016 p. 112 - 120

LALINET (LatinAmericanLidarNetwork),previously known as ALINE,is the first fully operative lidar network for aerosol research in South America,probing the atmosphere on regular basis since September 2013.The general purpose of this network is to attempt to fill the gap in the knowledge on aerosol vertical distribution over South America and its direct and indirect impact on weather and climate by the establishment of a vertically-resolved data set of aerosol properties.Similarly to other lidar research networks,most of the LALINET instruments are not commercially produced and,consequently,configurations,capabilities and derived-products can be remark ably different among stations.It is a fact that such un-biased 4D data set calls for a strict standardization from the instrumental and data processing point of view.This study has been envisaged to investigate the ongoing network configurations with the aim of highlighting the instrumentalstrengths and weaknesses of LALINET.