Assessment of Sun photometer Langley calibration at the high-elevation sites Mauna Loa and Izaña

Toledano, Carlos; González, Ramiro; Fuertes, David; Cuevas, Emilio; Eck, Thomas F.; Kazadzis, Stelios; Kouremeti, Natalia; Gröbner, Julian; Goloub, Philippe; Blarel, Luc; Román, Roberto; Barreto, África; Berjón, Alberto; Holben, Brent N.; Cachorro, Victoria E.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-14555-2018

Articles | Volume 18, issue 19

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 14555–14567, 2018

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-14555-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 14555–14567, 2018

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-14555-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 19

Research article 11 Oct 2018

Research article | 11 Oct 2018

Assessment of Sun photometer Langley calibration at the high-elevation sites Mauna Loa and Izaña

Carlos Toledano et al.

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RC1: 'Comments on "Assessment of Sun photometer Langley calibration at the high-elevation sites Mauna Loa and Izaña"', Anonymous Referee #1, 08 Jun 2018
RC2: 'Review of Toledano et al., “Assessment of Sun photometer Langley calibration at the high-elevation sites Mauna Loa and Izana”', Anonymous Referee #2, 12 Jun 2018
AC1: 'Response to reviewers', Carlos Toledano, 20 Aug 2018
AC2: 'Response to editor comments', Carlos Toledano, 20 Aug 2018

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AR by Carlos Toledano on behalf of the Authors (21 Aug 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (06 Sep 2018) by Evangelos Gerasopoulos

Short summary

Most of the ground-based radiometric networks have their reference instruments and/or calibrate them at Mauna Loa or Izaña. The suitability of these high-mountain stations for absolute radiometric calibrations is investigated with the support of 20 years of first-class Sun photometer data from the AERONET and GAW-PFR networks. We analyze the number of calibration days at each site in a climatological sense and investigate the uncertainty of the calibrations based on long-term statistics.