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@article{rs15225362,

title = {Analysis of Daytime and Night-Time Aerosol Optical Depth from Solar and Lunar Photometry in Valladolid (Spain)},

author = {Celia Herrero del Barrio and David Mateos and Roberto Román and Ramiro González and Sara Herrero-Anta and Daniel González-Fernández and Abel Calle and Carlos Toledano and Victoria Eugenia Cachorro and Ángel Máximo De Frutos Baraja},

url = {https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/15/22/5362},

doi = {10.3390/rs15225362},

issn = {2072-4292},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

urldate = {2023-01-01},

journal = {Remote Sensing},

volume = {15},

number = {22},

abstract = {Aerosol optical depth (AOD) at night-time has become a hot topic in recent years due to the development of new instruments recording accurate ground-based lunar irradiance measurements, and the development of calibration methods and extraterrestrial irradiance models adapted to lunar photometry. This study uses all daytime and night-time AOD data available at Valladolid (Spain) from October 2016 to March 2022 in order to analyze its behavior and the added contribution of night data. The annual, monthly and daily AOD evolution is studied comparing daytime and night-time values and checking the correlation between them. For this purpose, the daily averages are computed, showing an annual pattern, with low AOD values throughout the year (mean value of AOD at 440 nm: 0.122), where winter months have the lower and summer the higher values, as observed in previous studies. All these AOD values are modulated by frequent desert dust events over the Iberian Peninsula, with a strong influence on daily and monthly mean values in February and March, where the strongest desert outbreaks occurred. The added new data confirm these results and the good correlation between daytime and night-time data. Also, a complete daily evolution is shown, observing that AOD and Ångström exponent (AE) mean values vary by only ±0.02 in 24 h, with a maximum value at 06:00 UTC and minimum at 18:00 UTC for both parameters.},

keywords = {aerosol climatology, aerosol optical depth, Angstrom Exponent, caelis, lunar photometry},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{gonzalez2020daytime,

title = {Daytime and nighttime aerosol optical depth implementation in CÆLIS},

author = {Ramiro González and Carlos Toledano and Roberto Román and David Fuertes and Alberto Berjón and David Mateos and Carmen Guirado-Fuentes and Cristian Velasco-Merino and Juan Carlos Antuña-Sánchez and Abel Calle and Victoria E. Cachorro and Angel M. de Frutos},

doi = {10.5194/gi-9-417-2020},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

urldate = {2020-01-01},

journal = {Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems},

volume = {9},

number = {2},

pages = {417--433},

publisher = {Copernicus GmbH},

keywords = {aerosol optical depth, caelis, moon, sun photometry},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}