A network of water vapor Raman lidars for improving heavy precipitation forecasting in southern France: introducing the WaLiNeAs initiative

Cyrille Flamant, Patrick Chazette, Olivier Caumont, Paolo Di Girolamo, Andreas Behrendt, Michaël Sicard, Julien Totems, Diego Lange, Nadia Fourrié, Pierre Brousseau, Clotilde Augros, Alexandre Baron, Marco Cacciani, Adolfo Comerón, Benedetto De Rosa, Véronique Ducrocq, Pascal Genau, Laurent Labatut, Constantino Muñoz-Porcar, Alejandro Rodríguez-Gómez, Donato Summa, Rohith Thundathil, Volker Wulfmeyer