EARLINET coordinated lidar observations of Saharan dust events on continental scale

G Pappalardo; A Papayannis; J Bösenberg; A Ansmann; A Apituley; L Alados Arboledas; D Balis; C Böckmann; A Chaikovsky; A Comeron; O Gustafsson; G Hansen; V Mitev; L Mona; D Nicolae; M Rita Perrone; A Pietruczuk; M Pujadas; J-P Putaud; F Ravetta; V Rizi; V Simeonov; N Spinelli; D Stoyanov; T Trickl; M Wiegner

doi:10.1088/1755-1307/7/1/012002

IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science

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EARLINET coordinated lidar observations of Saharan dust events on continental scale

G Pappalardo¹, A Papayannis², J Bösenberg³, A Ansmann⁴, A Apituley⁵, L Alados Arboledas⁶, D Balis⁷, C Böckmann⁸, A Chaikovsky⁹, A Comeron¹⁰, O Gustafsson¹¹, G Hansen¹², V Mitev¹³, L Mona¹, D Nicolae¹⁴, M Rita Perrone¹⁵, A Pietruczuk¹⁶, M Pujadas¹⁷, J-P Putaud¹⁸, F Ravetta¹⁹, V Rizi²⁰, V Simeonov²¹, N Spinelli²², D Stoyanov²³, T Trickl²⁴ and M Wiegner²⁵

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IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, Volume 7, WMO/GEO EXPERT MEETING ON AN INTERNATIONAL SAND AND DUST STORM WARNING SYSTEM 7–9 November 2007, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Barcelona, Spain Citation G Pappalardo et al 2009 IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci. 7 012002 DOI 10.1088/1755-1307/7/1/012002

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¹ Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche -Istituto di Metodologie per l'Analisi Ambientale CNR-IMAA, Potenza, Italy

² National Technical University of Athens, Department of Physics, Athens, Greece

³ Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Hamburg, Germany

⁴ Institut für Troposphärenforschung, Leipzig, Germany

⁵ Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

⁶ Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain

⁷ Aristoteleio Panepistimio, Thessalonikis, Greece

⁸ Institut für Mathematik der Universität Potsdam, Germany

⁹ Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences, Minsk, Bjelarus

¹⁰ Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

¹¹ Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Linköping, Sweden

¹² Norwegian Institute for Air Research at the Polar Environmental Centre, Tromsö, Norway

¹³ CSEM, Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

¹⁴ National Institute of R&D for Optoelectronics, Magurele-Bucharest, Romania

¹⁵ Universitè degli Studi del Salento, Department of Physics, Lecce, Italy

¹⁶ Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

¹⁷ Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas, Madrid, Spain

¹⁸ EC Joint Research Centre, Ispra (VA), Italy

¹⁹ Université Pierre et Maris Curie-Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Paris, France

²⁰ Universitè degli Studi dell'Aquila - Dipartimento di Fisica - CETEMPS, L'Aquila, Italy

²¹ Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

²² Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze Fisiche della Materia, Napoli, Italy

²³ Institute of Electronics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

²⁴ Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe IMK-IFU, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

²⁵ Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany

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Abstract

EARLINET, the European Aerosol Research Lidar Network, is the best tool to investigate the horizontal and vertical transport of aerosols over Europe. Within the network, particular attention is devoted to Saharan dust events monitoring. An alert system has been established in order to perform devoted measurements in case of intrusions of desert particles on European continent. Starting from data collected within EARLINET since May 2000, a first statistical analysis of the aerosol vertical distribution on European scale during Saharan dust outbreaks, has been performed. These results highlights the fundamental role that EARLINET can have for the study of impact of Saharan dust on European scale. The current 5-year EU project EARLINET-ASOS, started in March 2006, will enhance the operation of the network through the improvement of the instruments and of the temporal coverage, and of the data analysis procedures.

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