Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) and columnar water vapor from PANDORA measurements

tbadmin January 1, 2018July 5, 2019

Principal Investigator: Alexander Cede
Institution/Company: Luftblick
Address: LuftBlick OG. Kreith 39a, 6162 Mutters
Country: Austria

Project description
– Development of the methodology required to extract Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) and columnar water vapor from PANDORA 2S measurements.
– Development of the methodology required to extract Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) and columnar water vapor from PANDORA 101, (Pandora 1S property of the Izaña observatory).
– Validation of AOD and water vapor measurements using independent reference instruments at Izaña Atmospheric Research Center.
– Uncertainty estimation of AOD and water vapor measurements.
– Development and validation of the GRASP Algorithm on the PANDORA instrument

Instrument(s) and Resulting variable(s)
Pandora 121: AOD, and water vapor.
Pandora 101: AOD, and water vapor.

Start date:
01/01/2018
End date:
01/01/2021