P o S ( I C R C 2 0 1 9 ) 6 6 7 Characterization of atmospheric properties at the future sites of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Jan Ebr∗a, Dušan Mandáta, Miroslav Pecha, Ladislav Chytkab, Jakub Juryšeka,b, Michael Prouzaa, Petr Janečeka, Petr Trávníčeka, Jiří Blažeka, Tomasz Bulikc, Marek Cieslarc, Mariusz Suchenekd , Vincenzo Rizie, Ermanno Pietropaoloe, Marco Iarlorie, Carla Aramo f , Laura Valoreg, Federico Di Pierrog, Piero Vallaniag, Davide Depaolig, Martin Willh, Markus Gaug j and Lluís Font j for the CTA consortium and Martin Mašeka, Jiří Eliášeka, Martin Jelíneki and Sergey Karpova aFZU – Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic bPalacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic cAstronomical Observatory, Department of Physics, University of Warsaw, Poland dFaculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Poland eINFN-GSGC-L’Aquila and CETEMPS/DSFC, Università degli Studi dell’Aquila, Italy f INFN Napoli and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Italy gINFN Torino, Italy hMax Planck Institute for Physics, Munich, Germany iAstronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic jDepartament de Fisica, and CERES-IEEC, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain