Correction of a lunar-irradiance model for aerosol optical depth retrieval and comparison with a star photometer

Román, Roberto; González, Ramiro; Toledano, Carlos; Barreto, África; Pérez-Ramírez, Daniel; Benavent-Oltra, Jose A.; Olmo, Francisco J.; Cachorro, Victoria E.; Alados-Arboledas, Lucas; de Frutos, Ángel M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-6293-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-6293-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-6293-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 11

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24 Nov 2020

Research article |

| 24 Nov 2020

Correction of a lunar-irradiance model for aerosol optical depth retrieval and comparison with a star photometer

Roberto Román, Ramiro González, Carlos Toledano, África Barreto, Daniel Pérez-Ramírez, Jose A. Benavent-Oltra, Francisco J. Olmo, Victoria E. Cachorro, Lucas Alados-Arboledas, and Ángel M. de Frutos

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RC1: 'Reviewer comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 01 Sep 2020
- AC1: 'Referee #1 Response', Roberto Román, 08 Oct 2020
RC2: 'Comments on :"Correction of a lunar irradiance model for aerosol optical depthretrieval and comparison with star photometer" by Roberto Román et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 19 Sep 2020
- AC2: 'Referee #2 Response', Roberto Román, 08 Oct 2020

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RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (14 Oct 2020)

ED: Publish as is (14 Oct 2020) by Omar Torres

AR by Roberto Román on behalf of the Authors (14 Oct 2020)

Short summary

Atmospheric-aerosol and gaseous properties can be derived at night-time if the lunar irradiance at the ground is measured. To this end, the knowledge of lunar irradiance at the top of the atmosphere is necessary. This extraterrestrial lunar irradiance is usually calculated by models since it varies with several geometric factors mainly depending on time and location. This paper proposes a correction to the most used lunar-irradiance model to be applied for atmospheric-aerosol characterization.