WORCC-PMOD/WRC quality assured aerosol optical depth and Ångström exponent for Ny-Ålesund GAW station (2002- present)

• Main Authors: Kouremeti, Natalia, Kazadzis, Stelios, Wehrli, Christoph, Nyeki, Stephan, Hansen,Georg H, Stebel, Kerstin
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2022
• Subjects: Norwegian Polar Institute; Ny Ålesund; Ny-Ålesund
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7191072

WORCC-PMOD/WRC quality assured aerosol optical depth and Ångström exponent for Ny-Ålesund GAW station (2002- present) Aerosol optical depth (AOD) measurements have been performed within the frame of Global Atmospheric Watch Precision Filter Radiometer (GAW-PFR) network in Ny-Ålesund (79N,11E) since 2002. The measurements are performed from March to October, with PFR (PrecisionFilterRadiometer) instruments provided by Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos, World Radiation Center (PMOD/WRC). The solar tracker and infrastructure are provided by provided by NILU(Norsk institutt for luftforskning) in collaboration with the Norwegian Polar Institute. PFR manufactured by PMOD/WRC is a temperature stabilized instrument at 20 o C equipped with four narrow band interference filters with nominal centroid wavelengths 368 nm, 412 nm, 500 nm and 862 nm and bandpass (fullwidth half maximum) 4 nm for 368 nm channel and 5 nm for the rest. The instrument is calibrated in yearly bases against the WMO-AOD reference at PMOD/WRC during the polar winter. The operation is done remotely by PMOD/WRC with the installation and onsite maintenance (cleaning, alignment adjustments) done by personnel of Norwegian Polar Institute and NILU in collaboration with PMOD/WRC. The processing and quality assurance of the data is done following the protocols of World Optical depth Research and Calibration Center (WORCC, PMOD/WRC) (2018), and the data are submitted to the WDCA database (EBAS-NILU) as hourly mean AOD and AE values. This dataset contains the high-resolution data (1 min) cloud screened and quality assured since 2002. The provided Ångström exponent is retrieved from the 4 wavelengths. SUN_PFR_AOD_AE_V1.0.dat : AOD and AE for the period 2002-2021 Lunar_PFR_AOD_AE_V1.0.dat : AOD and AE for the period 2018-2021 KN: Calibration, operation, and processing since 2014, WORCC quality assurance protocols, quality assurance of the presented dataset KS: , WORCC quality assurance protocols, consulting on quality assurance of the presented ...