Aerosol extinction
Measurement Categories: Aerosols
Description: The removal of radiant energy from an incident beam by the process of aerosol absorption and/or scattering.
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Instruments that produce the measurement
The above measurement is considered scientifically relevant for the following instruments. Refer to the datastream (netcdf) file headers of each instrument for a list of all available measurements, including those recorded for diagnostic or quality assurance purposes.
- ARM Instruments
- Field Campaign Instruments
- Aerosol Optical Thickness (AOT)
- Ames Airborne Tracking Sunphotometer (AATS)
- Cimel Sunphotometer (CSPHOT)
- Desert Research Institute Ground-Based Aerosol Instruments (DRI-GND)
- In-situ Aerosol Profiles (Cessna Aerosol Flights) (IAP)
- MFRSR Water-Vapor Barnard Algorithm (MFRSR-WV1BARN)
- Micropulse Lidar (MPL)
- NASA-Ames Cadenza Cavity Ring-Down Instrument (CADENZA)
- Raman LIDAR Vertical Profiles (RLPROF)
- Spectral Optical Attenuation of Filter Samples (SPEC-ATN)
Datastreams including the measurement
- csphotalm1dubo - Cimel Sunphotometer (CSPHOT): Dubovik almucantar retrievals
- csphotaot - Cimel Sunphotometer (CSPHOT): aerosol optical thickness data
- csphotaotfilt - Cimel Sunphotometer (CSPHOT): aerosol optical thickness, filtered data
- csphotaotfiltqa - Cimel Sunphotometer (CSPHOT): aerosol optical thickness, filtered quality assurance data
- csphotcoarsepfn1 - Cimel Sunphotometer (CSPHOT): almucantars sky radiance data, coarse mode
- csphotfinepfn1 - Cimel Sunphotometer (CSPHOT): almucantars sky radiance data, fine mode
- csphotsize - Cimel Sunphotometer (CSPHOT): derived: aerosol size distributions
- csphottotalpfn1 - Cimel Sunphotometer (CSPHOT): almucantars sky radiance data, total mode