EARLINET VALIDATION OF CATS L2 PRODUCT

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The Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) onboard the International Space Station (ISS), is a lidar system providing vertically resolved aerosol and cloud profiles since February 2015. In this study, the CATS aerosol product is validated against the aerosol profiles provided by the European Aerosol Research Lidar Network (EARLINET). This validation activity is based on collocated CATS-EARLINET measurements and the comparison of the particle backscatter coefficient at 1064nm.

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Emmanouil Proestakis, Vassilis Amiridis, Michael Kottas, Eleni Marinou, Ioannis Binietoglou, Albert Ansmann, Ulla Wandinger, John Yorks, Edward Nowottnick, Abduvosit Makhmudov, Alexandros Papayannis, Aleksander Pietruczuk, Anna Gialitaki, Arnoud Apituley, Constantino Muñoz-Porcar, Daniele Bortoli, Davide Dionisi, Dietrich Althausen, Dimitra Mamali, Dimitris Balis, Doina Nicolae, Eleni Tetoni, Gian Luigi Liberti, Holger Baars, Iwona S. Stachlewska, Kalliopi-Artemis Voudouri, Lucia Mona, Maria Mylonaki, Maria Rita Perrone, Maria João Costa, Michael Sicard, Nikolaos Papagiannopoulos, Nikolaos Siomos, Pasquale Burlizzi, Ronny Engelmann, Sabur F. Abdullaev, Julian Hofer and Gelsomina Pappalardo, 2018: Earlinet validation of CATS L2 product. EPJ Web of Conferences 176, 02005 (2018. ILRC28. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201817602005

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