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Hashimoto, M. Nakajima, T. Dubovik, O. Campanelli, M. Che, H. Khatri, P. Takamura, T. Pandithurai, G. 1867-8548 Copernicus GmbH Atmospheric Science http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/amt-5-2723-2012 <jats:p>Abstract. In order to reduce uncertainty in the estimation of Direct Aerosol Radiative Forcing (DARF), it is important to improve the estimation of the single scattering albedo (SSA). In this study, we propose a new data processing method to improve SSA retrievals for the SKYNET sky radiometer network, which is one of the growing number of networks of sun-sky photometers, such as NASA AERONET and others. There are several reports that SSA values from SKYNET have a bias compared to those from AERONET, which is regarded to be the most accurate due to its rigorous calibration routines and data quality and cloud screening algorithms. We investigated possible causes of errors in SSA that might explain the known biases through sensitivity experiments using a numerical model, and also using real data at the SKYNET sites at Pune (18.616° N/73.800° E) in India and Beijing (39.586° N/116.229° E) in China. Sensitivity experiments showed that an uncertainty of the order of ±0.03 in the SSA value can be caused by a possible error in the ground surface albedo or solid view angle assumed for each observation site. Another candidate for possible error in the SSA was found in cirrus contamination generated by imperfect cloud screening in the SKYNET data processing. Therefore, we developed a new data quality control method to get rid of low quality or cloud contamination data, and we applied this method to the real observation data at the Pune site in SKYNET. After applying this method to the observation data, we were able to screen out a large amount of cirrus-contaminated data and to reduce the deviation in the SSA value from that of AERONET. We then estimated DARF using data screened by our new method. The result showed that the method significantly reduced the difference of 5 W m−2 that existed between the SKYNET and AERONET values of DARF before screening. The present study also suggests the necessity of preparing suitable a priori information on the distribution of coarse particles ranging in radius between 10 μm and 30 μm for the analysis of heavily dust-laden atmospheric cases. </jats:p> Development of a new data-processing method for SKYNET sky radiometer observations Atmospheric Measurement Techniques |
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| spellingShingle | Hashimoto, M., Nakajima, T., Dubovik, O., Campanelli, M., Che, H., Khatri, P., Takamura, T., Pandithurai, G., Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, Development of a new data-processing method for SKYNET sky radiometer observations, Atmospheric Science |
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| title_sort | development of a new data-processing method for skynet sky radiometer observations |
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