Atmos. Meas. Tech. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2018-103 Manuscript under review for journal Atmos. Meas. Tech. Discussion started: 4 April 2018 c Author(s) 2018. CC BY 4.0 License. Description and applications of a mobile system performing on-road aerosol remote sensing and in situ measurements Ioana Elisabeta Popovici1,2, Philippe Goloub1, Thierry Podvin1, Luc Blarel1, Rodrigue Loisil1, Florin 1 3 1 2 1 4,1 Unga , Augustin Mortier , Christine Deroo , Stéphane Victori , Fabrice Ducos , Benjamin Torres , 1 5 6 7 5 Cyril Delegove , Marie Choël , Nathalie Pujol-Söhne and Christophe Pietras 1Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8518 – LOA – Laboratoire d’Optique Atmosphérique, F-59000 Lille, France 2Cimel Electronique, 75011 Paris, France 3Norwegian Meteorological Institute, 0313 Oslo, Norway 4GRASP-SAS, Remote sensing developments, Univ. Lille, 59650 Villeneuve d’Ascq, France 10 5Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8516 – LASIR – Laboratoire de Spectrochimie Infrarouge et Raman, F-59000 Lille, France 6ATMO Hauts-de-France, 59000 Lille, France 7Ecole Polytéchnique, CNRS, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, 91120 Palaiseau, France Correspondence to: Ioana E. Popovici (
[email protected]) Abstract. 15 The majority of ground-based aerosols observations are limited to fixed locations, narrowing the knowledge on their spatial variability. In order to overcome this issue, a compact Mobile Aerosol Monitoring System (MAMS) was developed to explore the aerosol vertical and spatial variability. This mobile laboratory is equipped with a micropulse lidar, a sun- photometer and an aerosol spectrometer. It is distinguished by other transportable platforms through its ability to perform on- road measurements and its unique feature lies in the sun-photometer capable to track the sun during motion.