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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-5167-2018
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-5167-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
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11 Sep 2018
Research article |
| 11 Sep 2018
| 11 Sep 2018
Performance of the FMI cosine error correction method for the Brewer spectral UV measurements
Finnish Meteorological Institute, Space and Earth Observation
Centre, Sodanlylä, Finland
Finnish Meteorological Institute, Climate Research Programme,
Kuopio, Finland
Antti Arola
Finnish Meteorological Institute, Climate Research Programme,
Kuopio, Finland
Julian Gröbner
Physikalisches Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos, World
Radiation
Center (PMOD/WRC), Davos Dorf, Switzerland
Sergio Fabian León-Luis
Izaña Atmospheric Research Center, Agencia Estatal de
Meteorología, Tenerife, Spain
Alberto Redondas
Izaña Atmospheric Research Center, Agencia Estatal de
Meteorología, Tenerife, Spain
Stelios Kazadzis
Physikalisches Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos, World
Radiation
Center (PMOD/WRC), Davos Dorf, Switzerland
IERSD, National Observatory of Athens, Greece
Tomi Karppinen
Finnish Meteorological Institute, Space and Earth Observation
Centre, Sodanlylä, Finland
Juha Matti Karhu
Finnish Meteorological Institute, Space and Earth Observation
Centre, Sodanlylä, Finland
Luca Egli
Physikalisches Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos, World
Radiation
Center (PMOD/WRC), Davos Dorf, Switzerland
Anu Heikkilä
Finnish Meteorological Institute, Climate Research Programme,
Kuopio, Finland
Finnish Meteorological Institute, Climate Research Programme,
Helsinki, Finland
Tapani Koskela
Independent researcher
formerly: Finnish Meteorological Institute, Climate
Research, Helsinki, Finland
Antonio Serrano
Department of Physics, University of Extremadura, 06006
Badajoz, Spain
José Manuel Vilaplana
National Institute for Aerospace Technology (INTA), El
Arenosillo Observatory, Huelva, Spain
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Short summary
The performance of the cosine error correction method for correcting spectral UV measurements of the Brewer spectroradiometer was studied. The correction depends on the sky radiation distribution, which can change during one spectral scan. The results showed that the correction varied between 4 and 14 %, and that the relative differences between the reference and the Brewer diminished by 10 %. The method is applicable to other instruments as long as the required input parameters are available.
The performance of the cosine error correction method for correcting spectral UV measurements of...
