This is a growing list of references related to turbidity or aerosol optical depth.

 

Abdelrahman, M.A., S.A.M. Said amd A.N. Shuaib. (1988). Comparison between atmospheric turbidity coefficients of desert and temperate climates. Sol. Energy 40:219-225.

Al-Jamal, K., S. Ayyash, R. Rasas, S. Al-Aruri and N. Shaban (1987). Atmospheric turbidity in Kuwait. Atmos. Environ. 21:1855-1859

Angstrom, A. (1929). On the atmospheric transmission of sun radiation an on dust in the air. Geograf. Ann. Deut., 11:156-166.

Angstrom, A. (1961). Techniques of determining the turbidity of the atmosphere. Tellus, 13:214-223.

Angstrom, A. (1961). Radiation to actinometric receivers in its dependence on aperture conditions. Tellus 13:425-431.

Angstrom, A. (1964). The parameters of atmospheric turbidity. Tellus, 16:64-76.

Angstrom, A. (1970). Apparent solar constant variations and their relation to the variability of atmospheric transmission. Tellus, 22:205-218.

Angstrom, A. (1970). On determination of the atmospheric turbidity and their relation to pyrheliometric measurements. Advances in Geophysics, Vol. 14, Academic Press, pp. 269-284.

Angstrom, A. And B. Rodhe (1966). Pyrheliometric measurements with special regard to the circumsolar radiation. Tellus 18:25-33.

Bergstrom, R.W, and J.T. Peterson. (1977). Comparison of predicted and observed solar radiation in an urban area. J. Appl. Meteorol. 16:1107-1116.

Box, M.A., and A. Deepak (1979). Atmospheric scattering corrections to solar radiometry. Applied Optics 18:1941-1949.

Braslau, N., and J.V. Dave (1973). Effect of aerosols on the transfer of solar energy through realistic model atmospheres. J. Appl. Meteorol. 12:601-619.

Dereniak, E.L. and D.G. Crowe (1984). Optical radiation and detectors. John Wiley & Sons, NY.

Frolich, C., and G.E. Shaw (1980). New determination of Rayleigh scattering in the terrestrial atmosphere. Applied Optics 19:1773-1775.

Eppley (1998). Instruction sheet for the Eppley normal incidence pyrheliometer (Model NIP) and the Eppley solar tracker (Model ST-1, ST-3). Eppley Laboratories, Newport, RI 02840.

Gueymard, C.A. (1998). Turbidity determination from broadband irradiance measurements: a detailed multicoefficient approach. Journal of Applied Meteorology 37:414-435.

Guzzy, R., G.C. Maracci, R. Rizzi and A. Sicardi (1985). Spectroratiometer for ground-based measurements related to remote sensing in the visible from a satellite. Applied Optics 24:2859-2863.

Herman, B.M., M.A. Box, J.A. Reagan and C.M. Evans, (1981). Alternate approach fo the analysis of solar photometer data. Applied Optics 20:2925-2928.

Kremser, H., P. Koepke and H. Quenzel. (1984) Aerosol optical thickness from direct solar radiation: improved Langley method applied to measured data. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Radiation in the Atmosphere, G. Fiocco, ed. (Deepak, Hampton, VA), pp. 46-49.

LeBaron, B.A., J.J. Michalsky, and L. Harrison (1989). Rotating shadowband measurement of atmospheric turbidity: a tool for estimating visibility. Atmos. Environ. 23:255-263.

Middleton, W.E. (1961) Pierre Bouguer's Optical Treatise on Gradation of Light, University of Toronto Press.

Page, J.K. (1986). Prediction of solar radiation on inclined surfaces in Solar energy in the European Community, Series F: Solar radiation data, appendix 1 (Volume 3). D. Reidel Publishing Company.

Raschke R.A. and Stephen K. Cox (1983). The determination of cloud optical depth from multiple fields of view pyrheliometric measurement. 5th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation. 31-Oct to 4 Nov 1983, Baltimore, MD. American Meteorological Society 1983.

Reno Gazette-Journal (1998). "Agricultural burns suspected in haze over northern Nevada" front page article on Wednesday, April 29, 1998.

Soufflet, V., C. Devaux and D. Tanre. (1992) Modified Langley plot method for measuring the spectral optical thickness and its daily variations. Applied Optics 31:2154-2162.

Tanaka, M., T. Nakajima, and M Shiobara (1986). Calibration of a sunphotometer by simultaneous measurements of direct-solar and circumsolar radiations. Applied Optics 25:1170-1176.

Teillet, P.M. (1990). Rayleigh optical depth comparisons from various sources. Applied Optics 29:1897-1900.

Volz, F.E. (1974). Economical multispectral sun photometer for measurements of aerosol extinction from 0.44m m to 1.6m m and precipitable water. Applied Optics 13:1732-1733.

WMO (1991) Report of the Meeting of Experts to Assess Available Data and Define the Aerosol Component for GAW-BAPMON Stations (Boulder, 16-19 December 1991), WMO Global Atmosphere Watch Report Number 79. WMO Secretariat, Geneva, Switzerland.

Young, A.T. (1981). Rayleigh scattering. Applied Optics 20:533-535.

Young, A.T. (1981). On the Rayleigh-scattering optical depths of the atmosphere. J. Appl. Meteorol. 20:328-330.