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Di Carmine et al. 2005
Di Carmine, C., Campanelli, M., Nakajima, T., Tomasi, C. and Vitale, V. (2005). Retrievals of Antarctic aerosol characteristics using a Sun-sky radiometer during the 2001–2002 austral summer campaign. Journal of Geophysical Research 110: doi: 10.1029/2004JD005280. issn: 0148-0227.

In order to characterize the Antarctic aerosol and to analyze the effect of katabatic winds on the properties of suspended particles, measurements of solar direct and diffuse irradiance were carried out at the Italian Terra Nova Bay station in Antarctica, during the 2001--2002 austral summer campaign. Measurements were performed by the ground-based PREDE sky radiometer and processed by using the Skyrad inversion code. Aerosol optical thickness at 500 nm was found to vary between 0.01 and 0.02. The volume size distribution curves showed bimodal features with the two modes located within 0.1--0.3 ¿m and 5--7 ¿m radius intervals, respectively. The real part of the refractive index characterizing the Antarctic aerosol was found to have a mean value of 1.40. During the katabatic event the analysis indicated that the advection of larger and drier fresh particles, together with the removal of marine suspended particles, caused the decrease in aerosol optical thickness.

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Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Aerosols and particles (0345, 4801, 4906), Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Instruments and techniques, Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Radiation, transmission and scattering, Global Change, Remote sensing, Global Change, Atmosphere (0315, 0325), Antarctica, aerosol, katabatic wind, Skyrad code, inversion techniques, Sun-sky radiometer
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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