New ground based monitoring radiation network in Argentine territory

WOLFRAM E; SALVADOR J; ORTE F; VAZQUEZ MA ET AL; QUEL E

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Workshop; VII Workshop on Lidar Measurements in Latin America; 2013

In the framework of the international project named Development of the Social Management System for Atmospheric Environmental Risks in South America, the CEILAP?s Lidar Division will established a new ground based radiation monitoring network in the argentine territory. This project has the main goal to develop an atmospheric environmental risk-management system in South America that create a bridge between the primary data generators and the national authorities that disseminates public warming in case of atmospheric event likes volcanic ash eruption, Patagonian dust storms, high UV radiation sunbathing, between others. The new radiation monitoring network will be constituted with moderated narrow band radiometers GUV 2511, broadband pyranometers in the visible (Kipp&Zonen CMP21) and UVA and UVB (YES), DOAS sky radiometers SciGlob and automatic total sky camera. Synergies of radiometer measurements with model will permit determine UV Index, cloud optical deep, total ozone column, and to quantify the impact of different aerosols event over solar radiation at ground surface. The network will work the same calibration protocol using a secondary traveling reference instrument to ensure the quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) of the measurements. In this paper will be introduced the network scientific capabilities and showed same examples of monitoring aerosols and cloud events over measurement sites.