Multi-Filter Rotating Shadowband Radiometer (MFRSR) retrievals of total column aerosol, water vapor, and ozone during the Arm Enhanced Shortwave Experiment (ARESE)
The ARESE provided an opportunity to compare MFRSR retrievals of total column aerosol optical depth, total column water vapor, and total column ozone with independent measurements of the same quantities during this campaign in the fall of 1995. MFRSR ozone was compared to ozonesondes that reached altitudes of at least 30 km. MFRSR water vapor was compared to microwave radiometer water vapor on several clear days during the campaign. Aerosol was measured by the ARM MFRSR and the Penn State Reagan sun photometer at high time resolution on a few days of the experiment. Only total column measurements of these constituents were compared. These comparisons were part of an effort to validate MFRSR retrievals that date from 1992. The daily total column aerosol optical depth record since that year illustrates the archival data and the variability of aerosol seasonally and during the decay of the Mt. Pinatubo stratospheric aerosol layer.
- Research Organization:
- State Univ. of New York, Albany, NY (United States). Research Foundation
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG02-90ER61072
- OSTI ID:
- 486001
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/ER/61072-25; CONF-960870-2; ON: DE97006344; TRN: 97:011365
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: International radiation symposium: current problems in atmospheric radiation, Fairbanks, AK (United States), 19-24 Aug 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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