Time series and vertical profiles of lidar ratios and fluorescence properties of stratospheric volcanic sulfate at Leipzig, Germany

This dataset contains the lidar observational data used in the publication Gast, B., Jimenez, C., Ansmann, A., Baars, H., and Wandinger U.: Lidar ratios and fluorescence properties of stratospheric volcanic sulfate, ESS Open Archive [preprint], 2026.DOI: https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.15002924/v1 The details for each file are listed below. Time series of lidar ratios and aerosol fluorescence properties File: temporal_evolution_stratospheric_volcanic_sulfate_2025.ncTime: February - June 2025Location: Leipzig, Germany (51.35°N, 12.43°E) The file contains the dates of each observation and the corresponding layer-mean values of the following optical properties of the stratospheric volcanic sulfate: aerosol optical depth at 355 nm (dimensionless) lidar ratio at 355 nm in sr (steradian) and its uncertainty lidar ratio at 532 nm in sr (steradian) and its uncertainty fluorescence bakscatter coefficient in m-1 sr-1 (per meter and per steradian) fluorescence capacity (dimensionless) extinction-related Angström exponent (dimensionless) Vertical profiles of aerosol optical properties on 4–5 February 2025 File: vertical_profiles_optical_properties_2025_02_04.ncTime: 22:05–05:45 UTC in the night of 4–5 February 2025Location: Leipzig, Germany (51.35°N, 12.43°E) The file contains the profiles of: height above ground level in km (kilometer), altitude of the station: 133 m above sea level particle backscatter coefficients at 355 nm and 532 nm in m-1 sr-1 (per meter and per steradian) fluorescence bakscatter coefficient in m-1 sr-1 (per meter and per steradian) fluorescence capacity (dimensionless) particle extinction coefficients at 355 nm and 532 nm in m-1 (per meter) lidar ratios at 355 nm and 532 nm in sr (steradian) Vertical profiles of aerosol optical properties on 19–20 March 2025 File: vertical_profiles_optical_properties_2025_03_19.ncTime: 23:35–04:35 UTC in the night of 19–20 March 2025Location: Leipzig, Germany (51.35°N, 12.43°E) The file contains the profiles of: height above ground level in km (kilometer), altitude of the station: 133 m above sea level particle backscatter coefficients at 355 nm, 532 nm and 1064 nm in m-1 sr-1 (per meter and per steradian) fluorescence bakscatter coefficient in m-1 sr-1 (per meter and per steradian) fluorescence capacity (dimensionless) particle extinction coefficients at 355 nm and 532 nm in m-1 (per meter) lidar ratios at 355 nm and 532 nm in sr (steradian)