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Atmospheric Lidar instrument on climate satellite improves understanding of aerosols and clouds

Ground stations of the European research infrastructure ACTRIS play a key role in calibrating data from the EarthCARE satellites. In recent years, these ground stations have been installed and expanded to analyse aerosol particles and clouds using remote sensing instruments such as lidar and radar. Around 50 stations from Europe (photo: TROPOS, Leipzig) and abroad take part in the atmo4ACTRIS…