René Estevan1 and Juan Carlos Antuña2

Camagüey Lidar Station, Camagüey Meteorological Center, INSMET, Cuba.
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We are conducting a quantitative comparison of the updated dataset of Camagüey stratospheric aerosols lidar measurements with the ones produced by the SAGE II satellite instrument. For such a goal we have created new processing software for the lidar measurements, which includes several advantages over the former one. We used an interpolation - integration procedure to produce version 2 of the Camagüey Lidar Station aerosols backscattering dataset. A total of 141 coincident profiles were obtained for the comparison. The dataset cover three main periods: pre- Pinatubo, Pinatubo and post-Pinatubo, with a total of 12, 48 and 81 coincident profiles respectively. Preliminary results corroborate former findings for the Pinatubo period. Also other features are reported for the Pre and Pinatubo periods.