Lidar and in-situ observation of aerosol layers above the top of tropical convection

(1) CSEM Centre Suisse d’Electronique et de Microtechnique SA, Jaquet-Droz 1, CH-2002 Neuchâtel, Switzerland, (valentin.mitev@csem.ch), (2) Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETHZ, Universitaetstrasse 16, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland, (thierry.corti@env.ethz.ch), (3) C-CAPS, ECI, NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland, gianni.martucci@nuigalway.ie, (4) Institute for Atmospheric Physics, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Becherweg 21, D-55099 Mainz, Germany, dereus@uni-mainz.de, (5) Central Aerological Observatory, Dolgoprudny – Moscow, Russia, sitnikov@caomsk.mipt.ru, (6) Institute for Space Research-Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, vmakarov@mx.iki.rssi.ru