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Results from the Fourth WMO Filter Radiometer Comparison for aerosol optical depth measurements

Stelios Kazadzis
Natalia Kouremeti
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Henri Diémoz
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Julian Gröbner
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Bruce W. Forgan
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Monica Campanelli
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Victor Estellés
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Kathleen Lantz
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Joseph Michalsky
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Thomas Carlund
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Emilio Cuevas
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Carlos Toledano
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Ralf Becker
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Stephan Nyeki
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Panagiotis G. Kosmopoulos
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Viktar Tatsiankou
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Laurent Vuilleumier
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Frederick M. Denn
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Nozomu Ohkawara
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Osamu Ijima
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Panagiotis I. Raptis
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Michael Milner
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Klaus Behrens
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Africa Barreto
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Giovanni Martucci
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Emiel Hall
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James Wendell
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Bryan E. Fabbri
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Christoph Wehrli
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Abstract

This study presents the results of the Fourth Filter Radiometer Comparison that was held in Davos, Switzerland, between 28 September and 16 October 2015. Thirty filter radiometers and spectroradiometers from 12 countries participated including reference instruments from global aerosol networks. The absolute differences of all instruments compared to the reference have been based on the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) criterion defined as follows: 95% of the measured data has to be within 0.005 ± 0.001/m (where m is the air mass). At least 24 out of 29 instruments achieved this goal at both 500 and 865 nm, while 12 out of 17 and 13 out of 21 achieved this at 368 and 412 nm, respectively. While searching for sources of differences among different instruments, it was found that all individual differences linked to Rayleigh, NO2, ozone, water vapor calculations and related optical depths and air mass calculations were smaller than 0.01 in aerosol optical depth (AOD) at 500 and 865 nm. Different cloud-detecting algorithms used have been compared. Ångström exponent calculations showed relatively large differences among different instruments, partly because of the high calculation uncertainty of this parameter in low AOD conditions. The overall low deviations of these AOD results and the high accuracy of reference aerosol network instruments demonstrated a promising framework to achieve homogeneity, compatibility and harmonization among the different spectral AOD networks in the near future.
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insu-03686261 , version 1 (03-06-2022)

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Stelios Kazadzis, Natalia Kouremeti, Henri Diémoz, Julian Gröbner, Bruce W. Forgan, et al.. Results from the Fourth WMO Filter Radiometer Comparison for aerosol optical depth measurements. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2018, 18, pp.3185-3201. ⟨10.5194/acp-18-3185-2018⟩. ⟨insu-03686261⟩
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