Ilya Slutsker

TL;DR: The operation and philosophy of the monitoring system, the precision and accuracy of the measuring radiometers, a brief description of the processing system, and access to the database are discussed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the AERONET network of ground-based radiometers were used to remotely sense the aerosol absorption and other optical properties in several key locations, and the results showed robust differentiation in both the magnitude and spectral dependence of the absorption, a property driving aerosol climate forcing.

TL;DR: In this paper, the AERONET program of spectral aerosol optical depth, precipitable water, and derived Angstrom exponent were analyzed and compiled into a spectral optical properties climatology.

TL;DR: In this paper, the spectral variation of α is typically not considered in the analysis and comparison of values from different techniques, and the spectral measurements of τ a from 340 to 1020 nm obtained from ground-based Aerosol Robotic Network radiometers located in various locations where either biomass burning, urban, or desert dust aerosols are prevalent.

TL;DR: In this article, a new inversion concept for simultaneously retrieving aerosol size distribution, complex refractive index, and single scattering albedo from spectral measurements of direct and diffuse radiation was proposed.