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Guidelines and recommendations for the candidate ACTRIS Aerosol Remote Sensing Observational Platforms

Requirements and recommendations applicable to ACTRIS Aerosol Remote Sensing Observational Platforms: performances of the instruments, measurement schedule, quality assurance of the measurements, data processing and data submission.  01
Guidelines and recommendations for the candidate ACTRIS Aerosol Remote Sensing Observational Platforms

Changes compared to version 01:

  1. Removal of the HSRL due to lack of capacity to offer support for QA/QC and data processing
  2. Addition of a sub-chapter "Things to consider when purchasing a new lidar"
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High Power Lidar: Standard Operation Procedures for NF operation Description of the operation procedures for the Aerosol High-power Lidars, to be applied by the ACTRIS Aerosol Remote Sensing Observational Platforms 01
     

 

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High Power Lidar: Standard Quality Assurance Procedures for NF operation Description of the quality assurance procedures for the Aerosol High-power Lidars, to be applied by the ACTRIS Aerosol Remote Sensing Observational Platforms 01
     

 

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Tools for QA/QC of the measurements
Lidar polarization GHK calculator Tool to calculate GHK parameters for polarization channels
Tools for data processing, uploads and downloads
Single Calculus Chain (SCC) Centralized data processing software for aerosol high-power lidars (submission via web interface)
Single Calculus Chain (SCC) access Centralized data processing software for aerosol high-power lidars (submission via command line)
Atmospheric Lidar Package Required for the Single Calculus Chain (SCC) access

ARES/EARLINET test upload interface

Tool to test the upload of the aerosol data products to the EARLINET/ACTRIS database (test upload via web interface)
ARES/EARLINET upload interface Tool for uploading aerosol data products to the ARES/EARLINET database (upload via web interface)
ARES/EARLINET bug reporting Tool for reporting bugs in the functionality of the ARES/EARLINET
ARES/EARLINET data portal Tool to search and download aerosol data products from the ARES/EARLINET database (download via web interface)
ARES/EARLINET data portal api Tool to search and download aerosol data products from the ARES/EARLINET database (download via command line)
ARES/EARLINET thredds catalogue Dataset Inventory Catalog for the ARES/EARLINET database = virtual directories of available data and their associated metadata