“…In contrast, ground-based lidars have a high temporal resolution that can provide continuous data with long-term fixed-point observations of the vertical distribution characteristics of dust transportation (Guo et al, 2017;Liu et al, 2019). Many ground-based lidar networks were built in different regions in the world (Baars et al, 2019;Falconieri et al, 2020;Granados-Munoz et al, 2016;Osborne et al, 2019;Papagiannopoulos et al, 2020) (e.g., EARLINET, LALINET, MPLNET, and UK lidar network), which provide convenient tracking and observation long-distance dust aerosols. China's ground-based lidar observation network is being established (Jun et al, 2002;Qin et al, 2016;Yang et al, 2019;Zhang et al, 2019;Zhou et al, 2018).…”