Integrated Aerosol Extinction Profiles from Ceilometer and Sunphotometer Combination against Sunphotometer Measurements at Various Heights

The aerosol extinction profiles at Granada (Spain) have been obtained combining ceilometer and sun/sky measurements in the GRASP code. In order to see the goodness of these retrieved profiles, three photometers at different altitudes have been used. The aerosol optical depth (AOD) at different height layers have been calculated with these photometers and it has been compared against the integrated retrieved extinction at the same layers. The obtained AOD (from GRASP and from photometers at different altitudes) correlates well, showing the most of r
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values above 0.6. The differences between both AOD values indicates that the retrieved aerosol extinction profiles are within the uncertainty of the photometers but this method overestimates the extinction at low levels and underestimates at high levels.