Latin American Lidar Network (LALINET): a diagnostic on networking instrumentation

JUAN LUIS GUERRERO-RASCADO; EDUARDO LANDULFO; HENRIQUE DE MELO JORGE BARBOSA; BORIS BARJA; ANDRÉS ESTEBAN BEDOYA; RENATA FACUNDES DA COSTA; RICARDO FORNO; DIEGO ALVÉS GOUVEIA; ELIANE GONÇALVES LARROZA; FÁBIO JULIANO DA SILVA LOPES; GREGORI DE ARRUDA MOREIRA; WALKER MORINOBU NAKAEMA; DAIRO ALEGRIA; MAURICIO MÚNERA; SEBASTIÁN PAPANDREA; JUAN VICENTE PALLOTA; EDUARDO JAIME QUEL ; PABLO RISTORI; JACOBO SALVADOR ; 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

Journal Of Atmospheric And Solar-Terrestrial Physics

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Lugar: Oxford; Año: 2016 vol. 138 p. 112 - 120

1364-6826

LALINET (Latin American Lidar Network), previously known as ALINE, is the first fully operative lidarnetwork for aerosol research in South America, probing the atmosphere on regular basis since September2013. The general purpose of this network is to attempt to fill the gap in the knowledge on aerosolvertical distribution over South America and its direct and indirect impact on weather and climate by theestablishment of a vertically-resolved dataset of aerosol properties. Similarly to other lidar researchnetworks, most of the LALINET instruments are not commercially produced and, consequently, configurations,capabilities and derived-products can be remarkably different among stations. It is a fact thatsuch un-biased 4D dataset calls for a strict standardization from the instrumental and data processingpoint of view. This study has been envisaged to investigate the ongoing network configurations with theaim of highlighting the instrumental strengths and weaknesses of LALINET.