Assessment of nocturnal aerosol optical depth from lunar photometry at the Izaña high mountain observatory

Barreto, África; Román, Roberto; Cuevas, Emilio; Berjón, Alberto J.; Almansa, A. Fernando; Toledano, Carlos; González, Ramiro; Hernández, Yballa; Blarel, Luc; Goloub, Philippe; Guirado, Carmen; Yela, Margarita

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-3007-2017

Articles | Volume 10, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-3007-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-3007-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 8

Research article

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21 Aug 2017

Research article |

| 21 Aug 2017

Assessment of nocturnal aerosol optical depth from lunar photometry at the Izaña high mountain observatory

África Barreto, Roberto Román, Emilio Cuevas, Alberto J. Berjón, A. Fernando Almansa, Carlos Toledano, Ramiro González, Yballa Hernández, Luc Blarel, Philippe Goloub, Carmen Guirado, and Margarita Yela

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RC1: 'Comments to Barreto et al. 2017', Anonymous Referee #1, 27 Mar 2017
- AC1: 'Response to Referee 1', África Barreto, 12 Jun 2017
  - AC3: 'Response to Referee 1 (Comment #2)', África Barreto, 12 Jun 2017
RC2: 'Review of MS No.: amt-2016-423 (África Barreto et al.)', Anonymous Referee #2, 13 Apr 2017
- AC2: 'Response to Referee 2', África Barreto, 12 Jun 2017

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AR by África Barreto on behalf of the Authors (21 Jun 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (09 Jul 2017) by Piet Stammes

AR by África Barreto on behalf of the Authors (17 Jul 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (18 Jul 2017) by Piet Stammes

Short summary

This work involves a first analysis of the systematic errors observed in the AOD retrieved at nighttime using the Sun–sky–lunar CE318-T photometer. In this respect, this paper is a first attempt to correct the AOD uncertainties that currently affect the lunar photometry by means of an empirical regression model. We have detected and corrected an important bias correlated to the Moon's phase and zenith angles, especially at longer wavelength channels.