Speaker
Vincenzo Rizi
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Description
For the pre-production phase of Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the INFN Raman Lidar (IRL) has collected vertical profiles of aerosol optical properties in the UV region at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (ORM) up to December 2022, in automatic and unattended mode.
The data analysis has been tested and improved also by comparison with the measurements of the nearly located AERONET sunphotometer. A survey of the atmospheric aerosol climatology will be presented together with an overview of case studies.
The IRL is currently at our laboratory in L'Aquila (Italy) and an overview about the status of the upgrades (already implemented and on going) to improve its performances, before its deployment at the CTA South site, is also presented.
Primary author
Marco Iarlori
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Co-authors
Africa Barreto
(IARC/AEMET, Spain)
Carla Aramo
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Emanuele Avocone
(Università degli studi dell'Aquila & INFN/LNGS)
Ermanno Pietropaolo
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Vincenzo Rizi
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
