Intercomparison of Aerosol Optical Depth from Brewer Ozone spectrophotometers and CIMEL sunphotometers measurements
Authors
Cheymol, A.
Gonzalez Sotelino, L. Lam,K.S.
Kim, J.
Fioletov, V.
Siani, A.M.
De Backer, H.
Discipline
Earth and related Environmental sciences
Subject
Langley plot method
Brewer Ozone
Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD)
CIMEL sunphotometer: Aeronet database
Audience
General Public
Scientific
Date
2009Publisher
IRM
KMI
RMI
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The Langley plot method applied on the Brewer Ozone measurements can provide accurate Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) in the UV-B. We present seven intercomparisons between AOD retrieved from Brewer Ozone measurements at 320 nm and AOD measured by CIMEL sunphotometer at 340 nm or 440 nm (shifted to 320 nm in using the Angstr¨om’s law), which are stored in the international AERONET database. Onldy the intercomparisons between co-located instruments can be used to validate the Langley Plot Method applied to the Brewer measurements: in this case, all the correlation coefficients are above 0.82. If the instruments are not at the same site, the correlation between the AOD retrieved by both instruments is much lower. In applying the Angstr¨om’s law the intercomparison is improved compared to previous study.
Citation
Cheymol, A.; Gonzalez Sotelino, L. Lam,K.S.; Kim, J.; Fioletov, V.; Siani, A.M.; De Backer, H. (2009). Intercomparison of Aerosol Optical Depth from Brewer Ozone spectrophotometers and CIMEL sunphotometers measurements. , Issue Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 733-741, IRM,Identifiers
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Article
Peer-Review
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Language
eng