First validation of GOME-2/MetOp absorbing aerosol height using EARLINET lidar observations

Michailidis, Konstantinos; Koukouli, Maria-Elissavet; Siomos, Nikolaos; Balis, Dimitris; Tuinder, Olaf; Tilstra, L. Gijsbert; Mona, Lucia; Pappalardo, Gelsomina; Bortoli, Daniele

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-3193-2021

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03 Mar 2021

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| 03 Mar 2021

First validation of GOME-2/MetOp absorbing aerosol height using EARLINET lidar observations

Konstantinos Michailidis, Maria-Elissavet Koukouli, Nikolaos Siomos, Dimitris Balis, Olaf Tuinder, L. Gijsbert Tilstra, Lucia Mona, Gelsomina Pappalardo, and Daniele Bortoli

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RC1: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #2, 11 Jul 2020
- AC2: 'Response to reviewer 2', Dimitris Balis, 22 Oct 2020
RC2: 'ACP-2020-98', Anonymous Referee #1, 16 Jul 2020
- AC1: 'Response to reviewer 1', Dimitris Balis, 22 Oct 2020

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AR by Dimitris Balis on behalf of the Authors (09 Nov 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (24 Nov 2020) by Eduardo Landulfo

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (25 Nov 2020)

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (07 Dec 2020)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (15 Dec 2020) by Eduardo Landulfo

AR by Dimitris Balis on behalf of the Authors (23 Dec 2020) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (04 Jan 2021) by Eduardo Landulfo

Short summary

The aim of this study is to investigate the potential of the GOME-2 instrument aboard the MetOp-A, MetOp-B and MetOp-C platforms to deliver accurate geometrical features of lofted aerosol layers. For this purpose, we use archived ground-based data from lidar stations available from the EARLINET database. We show that for this well-developed and spatially well-spread aerosol layer, most GOME-2 retrievals fall within 1 km of the exact temporally collocated lidar observation.