Aerosol optical depth retrievals at the Izaña Atmospheric Observatory from 1941 to 2013 by using artificial neural networks

García, R. D.; García, O. E.; Cuevas, E.; Cachorro, V. E.; Barreto, A.; Guirado-Fuentes, C.; Kouremeti, N.; Bustos, J. J.; Romero-Campos, P. M.; de Frutos, A. M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-53-2016

Articles | Volume 9, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-53-2016

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-53-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 1

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15 Jan 2016

Research article |

| 15 Jan 2016

Aerosol optical depth retrievals at the Izaña Atmospheric Observatory from 1941 to 2013 by using artificial neural networks

R. D. García, O. E. García, E. Cuevas, V. E. Cachorro, A. Barreto, C. Guirado-Fuentes, N. Kouremeti, J. J. Bustos, P. M. Romero-Campos, and A. M. de Frutos

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RC C3203: 'Review of Garcia et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 06 Oct 2015
- AC C4025: 'Response Referee 1 AMTD 2015-219 C3203', García Cabrera Rosa Delia, 23 Nov 2015
RC C3224: 'Interactive comment on “Aerosol optical depth retrievals at the Izaña Atmospheric Observatory from 1941 to 2013 by using artificial neural networks” by R. D. García et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 08 Oct 2015
- AC C4026: 'Response Referee 2 AMTD 2015-219 C3224', García Cabrera Rosa Delia, 23 Nov 2015

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This paper presents the reconstruction of a 73-year time series of the aerosol optical depth (AOD) at 500 nm at the subtropical high-mountain Izaña Atmospheric Observatory (IZO) located in Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain). For this purpose, we have combined AOD estimates from artificial neural networks (ANNs) from 1941 to 2001 and AOD measurements directly obtained with a precision filter radiometer (PFR) between 2003 and 2013.