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Measurement of Aerosols Optical Thickness of the Atmosphere using the GLOBE Handheld Sun Photometer
Published on: May 29, 2019
Comparison of columnar water-vapor measurements from solar transmittance methods
Abstract:
In the fall of 1997 the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement program conducted a study of water-vapor-abundance-measurement at its southern Great Plains site. The large number of instruments included four solar radiometers to measure the columnar water vapor (CWV) by measuring solar transmittance in the 0.94-mum water-vapor absorption band. At first, no attempt was made to standardize our procedures to the same radiative transfer model and its underlying water-vapor spectroscopy. In the second round of comparison we used the same line-by-line code (which includes recently corrected H(2)O spectroscopy) to retrieve CWV from all four solar radiometers, thus decreasing the mean CWV by 8-13%. The remaining spread of 8% is an indication of the other-than-model uncertainties involved in the retrieval.
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