American Geophysical Union, Geophysical Research Letters, 9(28), p. 1691-1694, 2001
DOI: 10.1029/2000gl012759
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The first Iberian UV radiation intercompari-son was held at "El Arenosillo"-Huelva station of the Insti-tuto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespatial (INTA) from Septem-ber 1 to 10, 1999. During this campaign, seven Brewer spectrophotometers and one Li-Cor spectrophotometer mea-sured the total column aerosol optical depth (AOD) at 306, 310, 313.5, 316.75 and 320 nm. The AOD calibration of one Brewer was transferred to all other Brewers using one day of intensive measurements. The remaining days were used to observe the stability and reproducibility of the AOD measurements by the different instruments. All Brewer spectrophotometers agreed to within an AOD of 0.03 dur-ing the whole measurement campaign. The differences in AOD between the Li-Cor spectrophotometer and the Brewer spectrophotometers were between -0.07 and +0.02 at 313.5, 316.75, and 320 nm. This investigation demonstrates the possibility of using the existing worldwide Brewer network as a global UV aerosol network for AOD monitoring.