Articles | Volume 9, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5997-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5997-2016
Research article
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13 Dec 2016
Research article |  | 13 Dec 2016

Aerosol absorption retrieval at ultraviolet wavelengths in a complex environment

Stelios Kazadzis, Panagiotis Raptis, Natalia Kouremeti, Vassilis Amiridis, Antti Arola, Evangelos Gerasopoulos, and Gregory L. Schuster

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Aerosols play an important role in the Earth's climate. One of the main aerosol properties is the single scattering albedo which is a measure of the aerosol absorption. In this work we have presented a method to retrieve this aerosol property in the ultraviolet and we presented the results for measurements at the urban environment of Athens, Greece. We show that the spectral dependence of the aerosol absorption in the VIS–IR and the UV range depends on the aerosol composition and type.