{"id":1432,"date":"2023-06-30T06:25:58","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T06:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/desarrollo-vm.ciai.inm.es\/testbed\/?page_id=1432"},"modified":"2026-03-12T07:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:32:19","slug":"project_32","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/testbed.aemet.es\/index.php\/project_32\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential use of low-cost hand-held sunphotometers for operational activities: Tamanrasset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The objective is to provide a comprehensive assessment of the potential use of the very low-cost Calitoo-TENUM hand-held sun-photometer for operational dust model and satellite observation validation activities within the WMO SDS-WAS.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since February 2017, a Calitoo has been taking measurements in the heart of the Sahara Desert at the Tamanrasset World Meteorological Organization &#8211; Global Atmospheric Watch (WMO-GAW) station (Algeria).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2412\" src=\"https:\/\/testbed.aemet.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/serie_aod_calitoo_cimel_log-1024x784.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"579\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/testbed.aemet.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/serie_aod_calitoo_cimel_log-1024x784.png 1024w, https:\/\/testbed.aemet.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/serie_aod_calitoo_cimel_log-300x230.png 300w, https:\/\/testbed.aemet.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/serie_aod_calitoo_cimel_log-768x588.png 768w, https:\/\/testbed.aemet.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/serie_aod_calitoo_cimel_log-1536x1175.png 1536w, https:\/\/testbed.aemet.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/serie_aod_calitoo_cimel_log-2048x1567.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Figure.-<\/strong> AERONET AOD computed at 500 nm from Cimel sun-photometer versus AOD computed from CALITOO hand-held sun-photometer at Tamanrasset. The gap in data in 2018 is due to the replacement of the Calitoo for a newly calibrated one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The objective is to provide a comprehensive assessment of the potential use of the very low-cost Calitoo-TENUM hand-held sun-photometer for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1432","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testbed.aemet.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testbed.aemet.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testbed.aemet.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testbed.aemet.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testbed.aemet.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":45,"href":"https:\/\/testbed.aemet.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2413,"href":"https:\/\/testbed.aemet.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1432\/revisions\/2413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testbed.aemet.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}