SPALINET: The Spanish and Portuguese Aerosol Lidar Network

News

• 28-09-2011 - VII International Workshop Technolaser & III International Meeting Optics Life & Heritage

  13 - 16 April 2012 - Havana, Cuba

  VII International Workshop Technolaser & III International Meeting Optics Life & Heritage (see first call)

• 27-09-2011 - VI Workshop Lidar Measurements in Latin America (WLMLA)

  26 September - 2 October 2011 - La Paz, Bolivia

  VI Workshop Lidar Measurements in Latin America (WLMLA)

• 24-05-2011 - Grímsvötn eruption (21/5/2011): Spanish and Portuguese quicklooks
• 26-11-2010 - Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull (14/4/2010): Spanish and Portuguese quicklooks
• 25-11-2010 - 4th SPALINET workshop

  25 November 2010 - Barcelona, Spain

  4th SPALINET  workshop

The information corresponding to the state of the atmosphere is one of the key points of pollutant dispersion models. The characterisation of the atmosphere on both a horizontal and vertical scale is an important added value for the weather prediction models. This information can be obtained by means of lidar measurements.

The Spanish Lidar Network (SPALINET), created on 1 January, 2007 by means of the Complementary Actions from the Spanish Ministry of Sciences and Innovation ref. CGL2006-26149-E/CLI (1/1/2007 - 30/6/2008), CGL2007-28871-E/CLI (1/1/2008 - 30/6/2009) and CGL2008-01330-E/CLI (1/7/2009 - 31/12/2010) aims to extend and reinforce the actions of the European network EARLINET (European Aerosol Research Lidar Network to Establish an Aerosol Climatology) initiated by means of the project “A European Aerosol Research Lidar Network to Establish an Aerosol Climatology: EARLINET”, contract nº EVR1-CT-1999-40003 of the Fifth Framework Programme, continued by means of a voluntary association of research institutions and currently supported, in regard to exchange of knowledge, by the Co-ordination Action “European Aerosol Research Lidar Network: Advanced Sustainable Observation System: EARLINET-ASOS”, contract nº 025991 (RICA) EARLINET-ASOS. The goal of the working plan for the first four years (2007 - 2010) is the formation of a nucleus for the development of the Spanish and Portuguese lidar community and to stimulate participation in it in order to improve the spatial coverage of vertical measurements of aerosols in Spanish and Portuguese territory.

Geographical distribution of lidars in Spanish and Portuguese territory. In green the transportable lidars and in red the fixed lidars. The lidars represented by squares belong to EARLINET.