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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1979-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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Research article
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29 Mar 2019
Research article |
| 29 Mar 2019
| 29 Mar 2019
Assessment of the total precipitable water from a sun photometer, microwave radiometer and radiosondes at a continental site in southeastern Europe
Konstantinos Fragkos
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National Institute of R&D for Optoelectronics INOE 2000, 409 Atomistilor Str., Măgurele, Ilfov, Romania
Bogdan Antonescu
National Institute of R&D for Optoelectronics INOE 2000, 409 Atomistilor Str., Măgurele, Ilfov, Romania
David M. Giles
Science Systems and Applications Inc. (SSAI), Lanham, MD 20706, USA
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Dragoş Ene
National Institute of R&D for Optoelectronics INOE 2000, 409 Atomistilor Str., Măgurele, Ilfov, Romania
Mihai Boldeanu
National Institute of R&D for Optoelectronics INOE 2000, 409 Atomistilor Str., Măgurele, Ilfov, Romania
Georgios A. Efstathiou
Department of Mathematics, Centre for Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
Livio Belegante
National Institute of R&D for Optoelectronics INOE 2000, 409 Atomistilor Str., Măgurele, Ilfov, Romania
Doina Nicolae
National Institute of R&D for Optoelectronics INOE 2000, 409 Atomistilor Str., Măgurele, Ilfov, Romania
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Short summary
In this study the quality of the total precipitable water (TPW) retrieved from the newly released AERONET version 3 algorithm is assessed, through comparison with independent measurements of the TPW from a microwave radiometer and radiosondes at a station in southeastern Europe. The findings show that there are improvements in the estimation of TPW in version 3 compared to version 2 of the algorithm.
In this study the quality of the total precipitable water (TPW) retrieved from the newly...
