Aerosol ultraviolet absorption experiment (2002 to 2004), part 1: Ultraviolet multifilter rotating shadowband radiometer calibration and intercomparison with CIMEL sunphotometers

Optical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1-17

  Krotkov, Nickolay ^a   Bhartia, Pawan K ^b   Herman, Jay ^b   Slusser, James ^c   Labow, Gordon ^d   Scott, Gwendolyn ^c   Janson, George ^c   Eck, Thomas F ^a   Holben, Brent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

AERONET network; Aerosol absorption; CIMEL sunphotometer; Diffuse fraction measurements; Langley calibration; Ultraviolet multifilter rotating shadowband radiometer; Ultraviolet radiation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; CALIBRATION; EXTRAPOLATION; INTERPOLATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL FILTERS; PHOTOMETERS; RADIOMETERS; ROBOTICS; SATELLITES; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AEROSOL ABSORPTION; AEROSOL ROBOTIC NETWORK (AERONET); DIFFUSE FRACTION MEASUREMENT; LANGLEY CALIBRATION; ROTATING SHADOWBAND RADIOMETER; ULTRAVIOLET MULTIFILTER;

LIGHT ABSORPTION;

EID: 22944469062     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1886818     Document Type: Article

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