Design, construction and calibration of single channel sun-photometer for study of aerosols

Aerosols are tiny liquid or solid particles suspended in the air have a strong influence on air quality, human health and climate change. Sun-photometer is a tool for measuring the optical and physical characteristics of aerosols by using sunlight at various wavelengths from the Earth surface. In th...

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Main Authors: M Imani, A Bayat, A Daroudi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Isfahan University of Technology 2019-06-01
Series:Iranian Journal of Physics Research
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Online Access:http://ijpr.iut.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-2992-2&slc_lang=en&sid=1
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Summary:Aerosols are tiny liquid or solid particles suspended in the air have a strong influence on air quality, human health and climate change. Sun-photometer is a tool for measuring the optical and physical characteristics of aerosols by using sunlight at various wavelengths from the Earth surface. In this paper, the design, construction, and calibration of a single channel sun-photometer is presented. Aerosols optical depth is amount of suspended particles in the Earth atmosphere was measured by the sun-photometer on September 5, 2016, and the results are in good agreement with the measurements of a CE 318-2 sun-photometer manufactured by the French CIMEL company.
ISSN:1682-6957
2345-3664