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Characterization and Calibration of the Commercial RSS Slated for Permanent Deployment at SGP

Kiedron, P., Berndt, J., Yager, E., Harrison, L., and Michalsky, J., Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, SUNY at Albany, New York
Twelfth Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Science Team Meeting

The ARM program purchased a rotating shadowband spectroradiometer (RSS) that was manufactured by Yankee Environmental Systems, Inc. At ASRC the instrument went through initial acceptance tests and after corrections and modifications made by the manufacturer the instrument was characterized. The angular response, linearity, wavelength registration, out-of-band rejection, slit function, absolute spectral response and noise were measured. The purpose of instrument characterization is to provide the scientist with the best possible model of instrument performance to facilitate comparisons between modeled irradiances and those measured by the RSS.

Note: This is the poster abstract presented at the meeting; an extended version was not provided by the author(s).