Report on the EARLINET database Uploading Process

The European Aerosol Research LIdar NETwork (EARLINET) is the first aerosol lidar network on a continental scale with the main goal to provide a comprehensive, quantitative, and statistically significant database for the aerosol distribution over Europe. The EARLINET database, also, takes advantage from the centralized data processing through the common standardized automatic analysis software developed within EARLINET, the Single Calculus Chain (SCC) (D'Amico et al., 2015). It is also possible the submission of data analyzed by using specific Quality Assured (QA) and documented software. The usage of the SCC assures the usage of QA retrieval algorithms and the full traceability of all EARLINET products. At present, 31 stations distributed all over Europe are part of the network. Each station of the network has a PI (Principal Investigator) and key personnel. EARLINET institutional members are obliged to follow the rules as defined in the EARLINET constitution. These include (among others) the performance of regular measurements and regular quality assessment. EARLINET members enabled to upload products on the database are called Data Originators (DO) while other users are usually referred as external users. Products can be uploaded through a Data Processor interface, which is a password protected web server interface. In this report we describe the EARLINET product uploading process which allows data originators to uploads their products.