Retrieval of aerosol optical and microphysical characteristics according to data from ground-based spectral measurements of direct and diffuse solar radiation. Part 2. Algorithm testing

Abstract

We present the results of the study of sensitivity of our algorithm for retrieving the columnar aerosol optical and microphysical characteristics to measurement errors. The algorithm testing against data from field measurements under conditions of both increased and moderate aerosol turbidity of the clear sky atmosphere is discussed. We present the average values of the aerosol optical and microphysical characteristics retrieved according to data from photometric measurements at the AERONET station in Tomsk during 2004–2009 for situations when the aerosol optical depth in the spectral channel of 440 nm did not exceed 0.4.