CONSISTENCY OF THE SINGLE CALCULUS CHAIN FOR CLIMATOLOGICAL STUDIES USING LONG-TERM MEASUREMENTS FROM THESSALONIKI LIDAR STATION.

The long term analysis of 15 years of lidar data derived from a Raman lidar at Thessaloniki is presented here. All measurements have been processed with the latest version 4 of the EARLINET Single Calculus Chain algorithm and are compared with the results from the current operational retrieval algorithm. In this paper we investigate the consistency between the EARLINET database and SCC for the case of Thessaloniki and we identify the issues to be considered when switching from current operations to SCC. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]