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Evaluation of “on site” calibration procedures for sun-sky photometers
Abstract. To retrieve columnar aerosol properties from sun-photometers both irradiance and radiance calibration factors are needed. For the irradiance the solar calibration constant, V0, that is the instrument counts for a direct normal solar flux extrapolated to the top of the atmosphere, must be determined. The solid view angle, SVA, is the measure of the field of view of the instrument, and it is important for obtaining the Radiance from sky diffuse irradiance measurements. Each of the three sun-photometers networks considered in the present study (SKYNET, AERONET, WMO-GAW) adopts different protocols of calibration and we evaluated the performance of the on-site calibration procedures, applied to SKYNET PREDE-POM instruments, during intercomparison campaigns and laboratory calibrations held in the framework of the Metrology for Aerosol Optical Properties (MAPP) EMPIR project. The on-site calibration, performed as frequently as possible (rather monthly) to monitor change of the machine condition, allow operators to track and evaluate the calibration status on a continuous basis considerably reducing the data gaps incurred by the periodical shipments for performing centralized calibrations. The performance of the on-site calibration procedures for V0 was very good in sites with low turbidity, showing an agreement with a reference calibration between 0.5 % and 1.5 % depending on wavelengths. In the urban area the agreement decreases between 1.7 % and 2.5 %. For the SVA the difference varied from a minimum of 0.03 % to a maximum of 3.46 %.
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RC1: 'Comment on amt-2023-165', Anonymous Referee #2, 20 Dec 2023
I was allready requested as referee in the first submitted version of the paper (reviewer #2)
For the general description of the paper content, please refer to my former report.
All my comments and suggestions have been carefully considered, and corrections have been conscientiously done.
The paper was allready from good quality as I wrote my first report, after corrections, the paper gain in quality and is ready to be published.
I have no objection to publish the manuscript in the current state, therefore I suggest that the manuscript should be "accepted as is"
I notice just one very minor typo point: "Estellés" shoul be written in the same way in the co-author line (accent is missing), in the citations in the text and in the references list, where there is a typo with the accent: Line 789: "Estelle´s" - > Estellés
Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2023-165-RC1 -
AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Monica Campanelli, 11 Mar 2024
Thank you to the reviewer. We corrected the typo
Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2023-165-AC1
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AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Monica Campanelli, 11 Mar 2024
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RC2: 'Comment on amt-2023-165', Anonymous Referee #1, 02 Jan 2024
The authors present an evaluation of on-site calibration procedures applied to two SkyNet Prede POM-01 sun/sky photometers. The work is of good quality, and what has been presented has been done so thoroughly. However, I believe major revisions are in order before this paper can be considered for publication. I have identified gaps that need to be addressed, potential inaccuracies or misconceptions that should be addressed, found numerous issues with grammar and several typos, made constructive suggestions for organization that will improve clarity, and provided numerous recommendations to tables, equations, and figures in the attached PDF file.
Publisher’s note: the supplement to this comment was replaced by a new version on 8 January 2024. The original version was lacking the comments.
- AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Monica Campanelli, 11 Mar 2024
- AC3: 'Reply on RC2', Monica Campanelli, 11 Mar 2024
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