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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 operationDescription of the operation procedures for the Aerosol High-power Lidars, to be applied by the ACTRIS Aerosol Remote Sensing Observational Platforms01
   

 

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High Power Lidar: Standard Quality Assurance Procedures for NF operationDescription of the quality assurance procedures for the Aerosol High-power Lidars, to be applied by the ACTRIS Aerosol Remote Sensing Observational Platforms01
   

 

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Tools for QA/QC of the measurements
Lidar polarization GHK calculatorTool 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) accessCentralized data processing software for aerosol high-power lidars (submission via command line)
Atmospheric Lidar PackageRequired for the Single Calculus Chain (SCC) access
ARES/EARLINET test upload interfaceTool to test the upload of the aerosol data products to the EARLINET/ACTRIS database (test upload via web interface)
ARES/EARLINET upload interfaceTool for uploading aerosol data products to the ARES/EARLINET database (upload via web interface)
ARES/EARLINET bug reportingTool for reporting bugs in the functionality of the ARES/EARLINET
ARES/EARLINET data portalTool to search and download aerosol data products from the ARES/EARLINET database (download via web interface)
ARES/EARLINET data portal apiTool to search and download aerosol data products from the ARES/EARLINET database (download via command line)
ARES/EARLINET thredds catalogueDataset Inventory Catalog for the ARES/EARLINET database = virtual directories of available data and their associated metadata