@inproceedings{3178393, title = "EARLINET VALIDATION OF CATS L2 PRODUCT", author = "Proestakis, Emmanouil and Amiridis, Vassilis and Kottas, Michael and and Marinou, Eleni and Binietoglou, Ioannis and Ansmann, Albert and and Wandinger, Ulla and Yorks, John and Nowottnick, Edward and Makhmudov, and Abduvosit and Papayannis, Alexandros and Pietruczuk, Aleksander and and Gialitaki, Anna and Apituley, Arnoud and Munoz-Porcar, Constantino and and Bortoli, Daniele and Dionisi, Davide and Althausen, Dietrich and Mamali, and Dimitra and Balis, Dimitris and Nicolae, Doina and Tetonii, Eleni and and Liberti, Gian Luigi and Baars, Holger and Stachlewskan, Iwona S. and and Voudouri, Kalliopi-Artemis and Mona, Lucia and Mylonaki, Maria and and Perrone, Maria Rita and Costa, Maria Joao and Sicard, Michael and and Papagiannopoulos, Nikolaos and Siomos, Nikolaos and Burlizzi, Pasquale and and Engelmann, Ronny and Abdullaev, Sabur F. and Hofer, Julian and and Pappalardo, Gelsomina", year = "2018", publisher = "E D P SCIENCES", booktitle = "28TH INTERNATIONAL LASER RADAR CONFERENCE (ILRC 28)", doi = "10.1051/epjconf/201817602005", abstract = "The Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) onboard the International Space Station (ISS), is a lidar system providing vertically resolved aerosol and cloud profiles since February 2015. In this study, the CATS aerosol product is validated against the aerosol profiles provided by the European Aerosol Research Lidar Network (EARLINET). This validation activity is based on collocated CATS-EARLINET measurements and the comparison of the particle backscatter coefficient at 1064nm." }