The first quantitative surface AOT monitoring data!
The magnitude of 0.3 - 0.5 is a respectable AOT for a 8-10 day old dust layer! And it comes and goes for the 3 days! What happened after the April 29th? Did you do a Langley calibration with the sun photometer? The sunset photo for April 28th on your web page is gorgeous. Would you mind registering it in the Resources/Images section?
Re: The first quantitative surface AOT monitoring data!
The sun photometer was calibrated on April 21st (clear day). I used the Langley method to estimate the top of the atmosphere voltage.
I put two more photos on my web page showing the sunset on the 27th of April (http://unr.edu/homepage/daved/aotres_sunset.html).
I should have run one of our Optec NGN-2s if I had known what was going on. I didn't know about the Asian connection until April 30.
During the sunrises (not a normal operating time for this grad student!) the sky had a white appearance. I'm missing data on April 23 (pm)
and April 24 due to a nasty wind storm (gusts to 70 mph and 10 minute averages up to 49 mph) and had to disassemble or risk sandblasting.
In regard to the April 29th, I had to finish my data collection and start writing the paper since it's the end of the semester (too bad).
