Best Practice Protocol for the Validation of Aerosol, Cloud, and Precipitation Profiles (ACPPV) and its application for the validation of the EarthCARE lidar product

V. Amaridis, E. Marinou, C. Hostetler, R. Koopman, D. Cecil, D. Moisseev, J. Tackett, S. Gross, H. Baars, J. Redemann, F. Marenco, L. Baldini, S. Tanelli, M. Fielding, M. Janisková, T. Tanaka, E. O'Connor, Ann Mari Fjæraa, P. Paschou, K. A. Voudouri, A. Karipis, M. Tsichla, K. Rizos, A. Tsekeri, I. Tsikoudi, G. Peletidou, D. Balis, K. Michailidis, ACPPV consortium