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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. Recommended measurement requirements for ancillary meteorological 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. Optimized shade geometry for common instruments. The optimization considers solar aureole
conditions, solar elevation and instrument characteristics (courtesy of G. Major and M.
Putsay) .................................................................37
Table 4.2. Advantages and disadvantages of common solar tracking instruments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Table 7.1. Spectral passband information for BSRN aerosol optical depth measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Table 7.2. Information that is required by the archive to calculate AOD from transmission data. . . . . . . . . 62
Table 7.3. Information required by the archive ...............................................63
Table B 1.1. Pyranometer specification list from ISO 9060. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Table B 1.2. Pyrheliometer specification table from ISO 9060. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Table B 5.1. Optical characteristics of typical instrument. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Table C 2.1. Geometrical data of diffusometers..............................................117
Table C 2.2a. Diffusometer irradiances in W m . ............................................
-2
120
Table C 2.2b. Pyrheliometer irradiances in W m ............................................
-2
121
Table C 2.3. Comparison to the standard group. ............................................121
Table C 3.1. Direct radiation (W m ) for the 10 sky functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
-2
125
Table C 3.2. Circumsolar irradiances (W m ) on the pyrheliometric sensors from the part of the sky,
-2
z>0.8 deg...............................................................126
Table C 3.3. Pyranometer characteristics...................................................126
Table C 3.4. Original and “optimal” arm length values (mm) for existing BSRN diffusometers. . . . . . . . . 127
Table C 3.5. Values of original and “optimal” radii (mm) of shading disk or sphere for the existing
BSRN diffusometers.............................................................127
Table C 3.6. Optimal geometric parameters (mm) of diffusometer for the considered pyranometer-
pyrheliometer 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 systems available for the
measurements of basic BSRN variables. .....................................152
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