Are EARLINET and AERONET climatologies consistent?  The case of Thessaloniki, Greece

Siomos, Nikolaos; Balis, Dimitris S.; Voudouri, Kalliopi A.; Giannakaki, Eleni; Filioglou, Maria; Amiridis, Vassilis; Papayannis, Alexandros; Fragkos, Konstantinos

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-11885-2018

Articles | Volume 18, issue 16

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-11885-2018

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EARLINET aerosol profiling: contributions to atmospheric and...

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-11885-2018

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21 Aug 2018

Research article |

| 21 Aug 2018

Are EARLINET and AERONET climatologies consistent? The case of Thessaloniki, Greece

Nikolaos Siomos, Dimitris S. Balis, Kalliopi A. Voudouri, Eleni Giannakaki, Maria Filioglou, Vassilis Amiridis, Alexandros Papayannis, and Konstantinos Fragkos

Data sets

AERONET sunphotometer data for Thessaloniki NASA https://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/new_web/data.html

Lidar data Earlinet https://data.earlinet.org/

Short summary

In this study we investigate the climatological behavior of the aerosol optical properties over Thessaloniki during the years 2003–2017. For this purpose, measurements from two individual networks, the European Lidar Aerosol Network (EARLINET) and the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET), were deployed. The analysis implies that the EARLINET sampling schedule can be quite effective in producing data that can be applied to climatological studies.