DEVELOPMENT OF AN ARGENTINEAN LIDAR NEWORK TO MONITOR THE VOLCANIC PLUME AND DUST IN PATAGONIA.

PABLO ROBERTO RISTORI; LIDIA ANA OTERO; EZEQUIEL PAWELKO; JUAN PALLOTTA; RAÚL D'ELIA; FERNANDO CHOUZA; FRANCISCO GONZÁLEZ; JUAN CARLOS DWORNICZAK; ANDREA PEREYRA; MARTÍN FERNANDEZ; SEBASTIAN LEMA; NOBUO SUGIMOTO; EDUARDO QUEL

Reviewed and Revised Papers Presented at the 26th International and Laser Radar Conference

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alexandros Papayannis Laser Remote Sensing Unit (LRSU) Physics Department National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)

Lugar: Atenas, Grecia; Año: 2012; p. 357 - 360

A new muliwavelength lidar network to monitor the presence of suspended aerosols in Argentina over Patagonian Airports affected by the Puyehue Cordón Caulle volcano is presented. These lidars are being developed by the Lidar Division at CEILAP ? Buenos Aires for the National Weather Service (NWS) who is in charge of the operation of these systems and the real time information to the airports, airlines, the Buenos Aires Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) and the general public of the actual conditions at the observation sites. Plume observations of the volcanic activity of Puyehue reaching Buenos Aires and evidence of volcanic ash lifted from the ground and transported to the first observational site at Bariloche are presented as well as the description of the new instrumentation being built at the Lidar Division.