A new approach for retrieving the UV–vis optical properties of ambient
aerosols

Bluvshtein, Nir; Flores, J. Michel; Segev, Lior; Rudich, Yinon

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3477-2016

Articles | Volume 9, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3477-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3477-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 8

Research article

|

01 Aug 2016

Research article |

| 01 Aug 2016

A new approach for retrieving the UV–vis optical properties of ambient aerosols

Nir Bluvshtein, J. Michel Flores, Lior Segev, and Yinon Rudich

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RC1: 'Comment on "A new approach for measuring the UV-Vis optical properties of ambient aerosols"', Anonymous Referee #3, 26 Apr 2016
- AC2: 'Reply to comments of Reviewer #3:', Yinon Rudich, 23 Jun 2016
RC2: 'Review of "A new approach for measuring the VU-Vis optical properties of ambient aerosols"', Anonymous Referee #1, 26 Apr 2016
- AC1: 'Reply to comments of Reviewer #1', Yinon Rudich, 23 Jun 2016
RC3: 'Referee comment', Anonymous Referee #4, 28 Apr 2016
- AC3: 'Reply to comments of Reviewer #4:', Yinon Rudich, 23 Jun 2016
- AC4: 'Reply to comments of Reviewer #4, addition.', Yinon Rudich, 23 Jun 2016
RC4: 'referee comment', Anonymous Referee #5, 02 May 2016
- AC5: 'Reply to comments of Reviewer #5:', Yinon Rudich, 23 Jun 2016

Short summary

Understanding spectrally dependent optical properties of aerosols is needed to quantify the effective radiative forcing due to aerosol–radiation interactions. We describe a new approach to retrieve extensive and intensive optical properties of the aerosol population over 300 to 650 nm wavelength. This new approach was validated with retrieval simulations, laboratory and continuous ambient aerosols measurements. Results showed low errors and good agreement with expected values.