EGU21-14943, updated on 17 Jan 2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-14943
EGU General Assembly 2021
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Pilot provision of EARLINET/ACTRIS lidar profiles to CAMS

Lucia Mona1, Giuseppe D'Amico1, Simone Gagliardi1, Francesco Amato1, Aldo Amodeo1, Sergio Ciamprone1, Benedetto De Rosa1, Ermann Ripepi1, Donato Summa1,2, Lucas Alados-Arboledas3, Vassilis Amiridis4, Holger Baars5, Mika Kompula6, Ina Mattis7, Doina Nicolae8, Christoper Pietras9, Iwona S. Stachlewska10, and Vincent Henri Peuch11
Lucia Mona et al.
  • 1Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, IMAA-CNR, Tito Scalo (PZ), Italy (lucia.mona@imaa.cnr.it)
  • 2Scuola di Ingegneria, Università degli Studi della Basilicata, Potenza, Italy
  • 3Andalusian Institute for Earth System Research, IISTA-CEAMA, Granada, Spain
  • 4National Observatory of Athens/IAASARS, Athens, Greece
  • 5Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), Leipzig, Germany
  • 6Finnish Meteorological Institute, Atmospheric Research Centre of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
  • 7Deutscher Wetterdienst, Meteorologisches Observatorium Hohenpeißenberg, Hohenpeissenberg, Germany
  • 8National Institute of R&D for Optoelectronics, Magurele, Romania
  • 9Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, École Polytechnique, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Palaiseau, France
  • 10University of Warsaw, Faculty of Physics, Warsaw, Poland
  • 11European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, UK

In December 2019, a contract between CNR and ECMWF was signed for a pilot ACTRIS/EARLINET data provision to the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS). Such pilot contract (CAMS21b) aims to put in place a first data provision for a set of selected stations and it will demonstrate the feasibility of fully traceable and quality-controlled data provision for the whole network.

In CAMS21b, the main effort is devoted to design, test and set up the provision of quality-controlled ACTRIS/EARLINET products in Real Real Time (RRT) and/or Near Real Time (NRT) to CAMS. The activities are focused on the automatic centralized data processing and data provision, ensuring the full traceability of the products from the data acquisition level up to the final quality-controlled data level. Most of the activities are done at ARES, the EARLINET/ACTRIS data center node at CNR, for assuring the centralized, harmonized and quality-controlled processing in compliance with FAIR principles.

New modules and submodules of the ACTRIS/EARLINET Single Calculus Chain (SCC) as well as optimized algorithms for cloud screening have been designed. Additional procedures were implemented for improving the quality of the data provided in NRT, but also for the quality control of the Level 2 products which are delivered with a time delay.

The release of a new version of SCC and of QC procedure is planned for mid-February.

The data provision started in October 2020 at the test site of Potenza. A system has been set up for measurement reporting and monitoring of KPIs (Key Performance Indicators). After 3 months of measurements, the overall data provision system showed no critical points.

In January 2021, the provision started for a group of 9 stations which are seen as representative for the whole network in terms of instrumental capability, but also ensuring a good geographical coverage of the European continent.

In order to accommodate also measurements from non-continuous operation systems, a measurement schedule has been set up, compromising between the need of a large number of measurements and costs/efforts at each station. The measurement schedule has been designed through a representativeness study and foresees 6 slots of measurements per week, 3 in daytime and 3 in nighttime conditions.

The successful implementation of the pilot allows the provision of aerosol optical property profiles to the CAMS services. from a set of observational sites distributed over the different European regions. These profiles is expected to be of interest for the assimilation, near real time evaluation and re-analysis evaluation of several CAMS products, including the aerosol load over Europe for air quality issues, atmospheric composition, climate forcing and solar and UV products. This allows for having a systematic solution for looking into specific events as they develop (e.g. the dust plume that you investigated earlier this month or the Californian fires in September), supporting or contradicting model forecasts. This pilot is the first provision of aerosol profiles from a high-quality ground-based network in NRT for this kind of applications. It is expected that these efforts will be continued in the next phase of CAMS/Copernicus (2021-2027).

How to cite: Mona, L., D'Amico, G., Gagliardi, S., Amato, F., Amodeo, A., Ciamprone, S., De Rosa, B., Ripepi, E., Summa, D., Alados-Arboledas, L., Amiridis, V., Baars, H., Kompula, M., Mattis, I., Nicolae, D., Pietras, C., Stachlewska, I. S., and Peuch, V. H.: Pilot provision of EARLINET/ACTRIS lidar profiles to CAMS, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-14943, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-14943, 2021.

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