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List of Tables
Table 1.1. BSRN Stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Table 1.2. List of site evaluation criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Table 2.2. Recom m ended m easurem ent requirem ents for ancillary m eteorological variables . . . . . . . . . 14
Table 3.1. Topography types used in archive site identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Table 3.2. Surface types used in archive site identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Table 4.1. Optim ized shade geom etry for com m on instrum ents. The optim ization considers solar aureole
conditions, solar elevation and instrum ent characteristics (courtesy of G. Major and M.
Putsay) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Table 4.2. Advantages and disadvantages of com m on solar tracking instrum ents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Table 7.1. Spectral passband inform ation for BSRN aerosol optical depth m easurem ents . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Table 7.2. Inform ation that is required by the archive to calculate AOD from transm ission data. . . . . . . . . 62
Table 7.3. Inform ation required by the archive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Table B 1.1. Pyranom eter specification list from ISO 9060. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Table B 1.2. Pyrheliom eter specification table from ISO 9060. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Table B 5.1. Optical characteristics of typical instrum ent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Table C 2.1. Geom etrical data of diffusom eters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Table C 2.2a. Diffusom eter irradiances in W m . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -2 120
Table C 2.2b. Pyrheliom eter irradiances in W m . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -2 121
Table C 2.3. Com parison to the standard group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Table C 3.1. Direct radiation (W m ) for the 10 sky functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -2 125
Table C 3.2. Circum solar irradiances (W m ) on the pyrheliom etric sensors from the part of the sky, -2
z>0.8 deg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Table C 3.3. Pyranom eter characteristics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Table C 3.4. Original and “optim al” arm length values (m m ) for existing BSRN diffusom eters. . . . . . . . . 127
Table C 3.5. Values of original and “optim al” radii (m m ) of shading disk or sphere for the existing
BSRN diffusom eters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Table C 3.6. Optim al geom etric param eters (m m ) of diffusom eter for the considered pyranom eter-
pyrheliom eter pairs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Table C 4.1. Sky irradiances expected from 0º to zl from the centre of the sun under various solar zenith
angles (W m ). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -2 132
Table F 1. Typical specifications for the three different types of data acquisition system s available for the
m easurem ents of basic BSRN variables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152