Articles | Volume 15, issue 19
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-5667-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-5667-2022
Research article
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11 Oct 2022
Research article |  | 11 Oct 2022

Sensitivity of aerosol optical depth trends using long-term measurements of different sun photometers

Angelos Karanikolas, Natalia Kouremeti, Julian Gröbner, Luca Egli, and Stelios Kazadzis

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Interactive discussion

Status: closed

Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • CC1: 'Short Comment on amt-2022-181 - effect of optical airmass', Thomas Eck, 05 Jul 2022
    • AC1: 'Reply on CC1', Angelos Karanikolas, 05 Sep 2022
  • RC1: 'Comment on amt-2022-181', Anonymous Referee #1, 15 Jul 2022
    • AC2: 'Reply on RC1', Angelos Karanikolas, 05 Sep 2022
  • RC2: 'Comment on amt-2022-181', Anonymous Referee #2, 29 Jul 2022
    • AC3: 'Reply on RC2', Angelos Karanikolas, 05 Sep 2022

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision
AR by Angelos Karanikolas on behalf of the Authors (07 Sep 2022)  Author's response    Author's tracked changes    Manuscript
ED: Publish as is (12 Sep 2022) by Piet Stammes
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Short summary
The aim of this work is to investigate the limitations of calculating long-term trends of a parameter that quantifies the overall effect of atmospheric aerosols on the solar radiation. A main finding is that even instruments with good agreement between their observations can show significantly different linear trends. By calculating time-varying trends, the trend agreement is shown to improve. We also show that different methods of trend estimation can result in significant trend differences.