Optical profiles of continental and marine aerosol from lidar observations at Leipzig, Germany, and Mindelo, Cabo Verde

The optical profiles used in the publication Haarig, M., Engelmann, R., Baars, H., Gast, B., Althausen, D., and Ansmann, A.: Discussion of the spectral slope of the lidar ratio between 355 nm and 1064 nm from multiwavelength Raman lidar observations, EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-449, 2025. are provided here. The details for each file are listed below. Continental Aerosol File: 20180807_2055-2251_Leipzig_optical_profiles.txtTime: 7 August 2018, 20:55 - 22:51 UTC Location: Leipzig, Germany (51.12°N, 12.3°E)Device: PollyXT-LACROS (Engelmann et al., AMT 2016) and BERTHA (Haarig et al., ACP 2017) The file contains the profiles of Height about ground level in km (kilometer), altitude of the station 120 m above sea level Relative humidity in % from the water vapor mixing ratio measured by PollyXT-LACROS calibrated with microwave radiometer and a ECMWF temperature profile Particle backscatter coefficient at given wavelength in Mm-1 sr-1 (per mega meter and per steradian) and its uncertainty Particle extinction coefficient at given wavelength in Mm-1 (per mega meter) and its uncertainty Lidar ratio (extinction-to-backscatter ratio) at given wavelength in sr (steradian) and its uncertainty Vertical averaging:vertical gliding average of 67 bins (approx. 500 m) for data at 355 and 532 nm from PollyXT-LACROSvertical gliding average of 99 bins (approx. 750 m) for data at 1064 nm from BERTHA Marine Aerosol File: 20220326_0345-0550_Mindelo_optical_profiles.txtTime: 26 March 2022, 03:45 - 05:50 UTC Location: Mindelo, Cabo Verde (16.878°N, 24.995°W)Device: PollyXT-CPV (Engelmann et al., AMT 2016, Gebauer et al., ACP 2024) The file contains the profiles of Height about ground level in km (kilometer), altitude of the station 10 m above sea level Relative humidity in % from the water vapor mixing ratio measured by PollyXT a ECMWF temperature profile Particle backscatter coefficient at given wavelength in Mm-1 sr-1 (per mega meter and per steradian) and its uncertainty Particle linear depolarization ratio (PLDR) at given wavelength (unitless) and its uncertainty Particle extinction coefficient at given wavelength in Mm-1 (per mega meter) and its uncertainty Lidar ratio (extinction-to-backscatter ratio) at given wavelength in sr (steradian) and its uncertainty Data are cutted as shown in the paper (Haarig et al., ACP 2025) Vertical averaging:vertical gliding average of 27 bins (approx. 200 m) for backscatter coefficient and the particle linear depolarization ratio vertical gliding average of 99 bins (approx. 750 m) for extinction coefficient and the lidar ratio