<p align="justify"><span lang="en-US">A new</span><span lang="en-US">ly</span> <span lang="en-US">available</span><span lang="en-US"> Raman</span> <span lang="en-US">l</span><span lang="en-US">idar (Purple Pulse Lidar Systems) for vertical profil</span><span lang="en-US">ing</span><span lang="en-US"> of atmospheric water vapor, temperature and aerosols was </span><span lang="en-US">evaluated</span><span lang="en-US"> during the </span><span lang="en-US">TEAMx pre-campaign</span><span lang="en-US"> (TEAMx-PC22)</span><span lang="en-US"> in</span> <span lang="en-US">s</span><span lang="en-US">ummer 2022 in the Inn </span><span lang="en-US">V</span><span lang="en-US">alley (Austria).</span><span lang="en-US"> TEAMx </span><span lang="en-US">(</span><em><span lang="en-US">Multi-scale </span></em><strong><span lang="en-US">t</span></strong><em><span lang="en-US">ransport and </span></em><strong><span lang="en-US">e</span></strong><em><span lang="en-US">xchange processes in the </span></em><strong><span lang="en-US">a</span></strong><em><span lang="en-US">tmosphere over </span></em><strong><span lang="en-US">m</span></strong><em><span lang="en-US">ountains – programme and e</span></em><strong><span lang="en-US">x</span></strong><em><span lang="en-US">periment) </span></em><span lang="en-US">is a</span><span lang="en-US">n</span><span lang="en-US"> international research program addressing exchange processes in the atmosphere over mountains</span><span lang="en-US"> and their parametrization in numerical weather models and climate models</span><span lang="en-US">.</span> <span lang="en-US">Prior to the</span> <span lang="en-US">multi disciplinary </span><span lang="en-US"> measurement campaign</span><span lang="en-US">,</span> <span lang="en-US">planned </span><span lang="en-US">in 2024/2025, the pre-campaign 2022 was rather </span><span lang="en-US"> performed</span><span lang="en-US"> for testing </span><span lang="en-US">(new)</span><span lang="en-US"> instruments and measurement sites and finding synergies between </span><span lang="en-US">certain devices</span><span lang="en-US">.</span></p> <p align="justify"><span lang="en-US">Th</span><span lang="en-US">e</span> <span lang="en-US">Raman </span><span lang="en-US">lidar system is capable of profiling water vapor and temperature throughout the </span><span lang="en-US">entire </span><span lang="en-US">planetary boundary layer (typically 3 km to 4 km </span><span lang="en-US">agl</span><span lang="en-US">.</span><span lang="en-US"> on summer days) </span><span lang="en-US">continuously</span><span lang="en-US"> with a basic temporal resolution of 10 s and a reasonable vertical resolution of 30 m to 100 m. Depending on conditions and temporal averaging, water vapor profiles could </span><span lang="en-US">even </span><span lang="en-US">be obtained up to ~7.5</span> <span lang="en-US">km </span><span lang="en-US">agl</span><span lang="en-US">.</span><span lang="en-US"> during nighttime. The </span><span lang="en-US">l</span><span lang="en-US">idar</span> <span lang="en-US">s</span><span lang="en-US">ystem was located at the University of Innsbruck (downtown). It was operated side by side with a vertical</span><span lang="en-US">ly</span> <span lang="en-US">star</span><span lang="en-US">ing</span> <span lang="en-US">Doppler wind lidar and a nearby (50 m) scanning Doppler wind lidar on the rooftop of the university building, </span><span lang="en-US">which provide vertical profiles of the vertical wind component at </span><span lang="en-US">a </span><span lang="en-US">1-</span><span lang="en-US">s</span> <span lang="en-US">interval</span><span lang="en-US"> and vertical profiles of the three-dimensional wind vector at </span><span lang="en-US">a </span><span lang="en-US">10-min interval, respectively</span><span lang="en-US">. During th</span><span lang="en-US">e</span> <span lang="en-US">measurement</span><span lang="en-US"> period (Aug 2022 to Sep 2022), operational radiosondes were laun</span><span lang="en-US">c</span><span lang="en-US">hed </span><span lang="en-US">in close proximity, </span><span lang="en-US">at Innsbruck </span><span lang="en-US">A</span><span lang="en-US">irport, roughly 3 km to the west </span><span lang="en-US">of the </span><span lang="en-US">l</span><span lang="en-US">idar site</span><span lang="en-US">. In addition to </span><span lang="en-US">t</span><span lang="en-US">he daily ascent at 2 UTC, radiosondes were launched at </span><span lang="en-US">about </span><span lang="en-US">8, 14 and 20 UTC on selected days </span><span lang="en-US">with </span><span lang="en-US">potentially complex meteorological conditions</span><span lang="en-US">. We present a first assessment of the Raman lidar measurements </span><span lang="en-US">through</span><span lang="en-US"> compari</span><span lang="en-US">sons</span><span lang="en-US"> with the radiosonde data. Together with data from the wind lidars, we also present an interpretation for significant meteorological situations and events, such as </span><span lang="en-US">f</span><span lang="en-US">oe</span><span lang="en-US">hn, a passing front, a thunderstorm and the formation of a convective boundary layer during a warm period.</span></p>