Francesco Zaratti¹, Ricardo Forno¹, Flavio Ghezzi¹, Eduardo Palenque¹, Errico Armandillo², Giorgio Fiocco³, Juan C. Antuña⁴, Alan Robock⁵, Pablo O. Canziani⁶, Barclay Clemesha⁷, Franco Brioschi and Vera Santagostino

¹Laboratorio de Física de la Atmósfera, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia
²European Space Agency, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
⁴Estación Lidar Camagüey, Instituto de Meteorología, Cuba
⁵Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
⁶Departamento de Ciencias de la Atmósfera, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
⁷Upper Atmosphere Research Group, FISAT, INPE, Brazil

An update on the process of installation of an Alexandrite Lidar in La Paz is given. We describe the preparations for the arrival of the Lidar, the actual installation, the data we are expecting and also the research to be carried out. Our research is discussed from the point of view of the ALINE network.