ACTRIS Marketplace

Short and long-term experimental Cal/Val campaigns at RADO premises, using RADO’s infrastructure and user’s own instrumentation. The infrastructure at RADO combines ACTRIS compliant aerosol remote sensing, cloud remote sensing and aerosol in-situ instrumentation, along with complementary measurements for meteorological parameters and radiation. Additional instruments from the users can be accommodated indoor or outdoor, as needed. Overflights with small research aircrafts possible.

The service includes:
·        Support from the technical staff to install and operate the instruments
·        Support from the scientific staff to set the measurements schedule coincident with satellite overpasses
·        Support from the scientific staff to collect, process and analyze the data.

Deployment of a mobile aerosol lidar for short-term campaigns and/or direct comparisons with similar instruments. The instrument operates at 1064, 532 and 355 nm wavelengths, with polarization at 532 nm and nighttime extinction capabilities at 532 and 355 nm. It can be operated inside a van (provided by RADO on request) or accommodated in the user’s laboratory (specific conditions to be discussed in advance).
The service includes:
·       Deployment and installation of the instrument at the user’s premises
·       Calibration, and operation of the instrument
·       Provision of the raw measurements
·       Provision of the processed data