Title
Aerosol optical properties inferred from in-situ and path-averaged measurements
Author
van Binsbergen, S.A.
Grossmann, P.
Cohen, L.H.
van Eijk, A.M.J.
Stein, K.U.
Contributor
Gladysz, S. (editor)
Stein, K.U. (editor)
Publication year
2017
Abstract
This paper compares in-situ and path-averaged measurements of the electro-optical transmission, with emphasis on aerosol effects. The in-situ sensors consisted of optical particle counters (OPC) and a visibility meter, the path-averaged data was provided by a 7-wavelength transmissometer (MSRT) and a scintillometer (BLS). Data was collected at a test site in Northern Germany. A retrieval algorithm was developed to infer characteristics of the aerosol size distribution (Junge approximation) from the MSRT data. A comparison of the various sensors suggests that the optical particle counters are over-optimistic in their estimate of the transmission. © Copyright 2017 SPIE. The Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
Subject
2015 Observation, Weapon & Protection Systems
ED - Electronic Defence
TS - Technical Sciences
Transmissometer
Adaptive optics
Adaptive systems
Aerosols
Approximation algorithms
Light transmission
Meteorological instruments
Radiation counters
Scintillation
Ultrasonic effects
Aerosol optical property
Aerosol size distributions
Field trial
Optical particle counters
Retrieval algorithms
Scintillometer
Transmissometer
Visibility meters
Optical properties
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TNO identifier
784898
Publisher
SPIE
ISBN
9781510613140
ISSN
0277-786X
Source
Optics in Atmospheric Propagation and Adaptive Systems XX 2017. 13 September 2017 through 14 September 2017, 10425
Series
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Article number
104250H
Document type
conference paper