DeLiAn – a growing collection of depolarization ratio, lidar ratio and Ångström exponent for different aerosol types and mixtures from ground-based lidar observations

The authors acknowledge support through the following projects and research programs: – ACTRIS under grant agreement no. 262 254 of the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) – ACTRIS-2 under grant agreement no. 654109 from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme – EUCAARI funded by the European Union Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) under grant no. 036 833-2 – CADEX funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under the grant no. 01DK14014 – the Gottfried Willhelm Leibniz Association (OCEANET project in the framework of PAKT) – BEYOND (funded under: FP7-REGPOT-2012-2013-1) under grant agreement no. 316210 – "Megacities-Megachallenge – Informal Dynamics of Global Change" (SPP 1233) funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) – Foundation of Science and Technology of Poland (FNiTP) Grant no. 519/FNITP/115/2010 – National Science Centre of Poland (NCN, DAINA-2) Grant no. 2020/38/L/ST10/00480 – Polarstern expeditions ANT-XXVI/1, ANT-XXVI/4, ANT-XXVII/1, AWI_PS75_00, AWI_PS77_00, AWI_PS81_00, AWI_PS83_00, AWI_PS95_00, AWI_PS98_00, AWI_PS122_00 and MOSAiC20192020 – SAMUM funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under grant number FOR 539 – BACCHUS funded by the European Union's 7th Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no. 603445 – A–LIFE funded by the European Research Council (grant no. 640458) – EVAA funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) under grant no. 50EE1721C – European Research Council (ERC) under the European Community's Horizon 2020 research and innovation framework programme — ERC grant agreement no. 725698 (D-TECT) – PANhellenic Geophysical Observatory of Antikythera (PANGEA) of the National Observatory of Athens, Greece – "EXCELSIOR": ERATOSTHENES: EXcellence Research Centre for Earth Surveillance and Space-Based Monitoring of the Environment H2020 Widespread Teaming project (www.excelsior2020.eu), funded from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 857510, from the Government of the Republic of Cyprus through the Directorate General for the European Programmes, Coordination and Development and the Cyprus University of Technology – PoLiCyTa project: PollyXT-CYP funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) – The National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development of Chile, FONDECYT, through grant agreement No. 11181335 – The Portuguese national funds through FCT–Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, I.P., in the framework of the ICT project with the references UIDB/04683/2020 and UIDP/04683/2020.