Welcome to the European Skynet Radiometers network website!
The ESR network
The Euroskyrad or ESR network was established in 2010 as a free collaborative platform among scientists involved with studies of aerosol remote sensing by means of sun-sky radiometers.
Representatives of ESR are Dr. Monica Campanelli from the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, CNR, Rome, Italy and Dr. Victor Estelles from the University of Valencia, Spain.
ESR is a volunteer European observational network of Prede POM sun sky radiometers coordinated with SKYNET in Asia and established and maintained by several universities and research institutes.
ESR is also a "multi-instrumental" network, as radiometers other than Prede POM (such as Cimel CE318 or others) can also take part. In this sense, the ESR network will involve independent instruments that do not belong to other international networks.
The ESR network is aimed at providing a methodology for the measurement, calibration and data processing of sun and sky photometric data for atmospheric aerosol characterization. The core of the system is the open source Skyrad.pack inversion algorithm in its different versions, completed by ESR with a series of tools and algorithms. Packages can be downloaded here.
Only standard ESR and SKYNET products are provided in this web page for homogeneity of aerosol products within the network. However ESR network encourages the development of new ideas by providing open source codes to be used as platform for testing new algorithms implemented by the users.
An important objective of ESR is to perform overlapping studies among other international networks such as AERONET and WMO-GAW, in order to improve their consistency. Therefore, in some instances ESR accepts instruments belonging to these networks. The ultimate objective is to increase and improve the retrievals that are made available to the aerosol science community.
The ESR website is organized as follows:
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OBJECTIVES
A statement of the main objectives of the ESR network in relation to the aerosol community. -
INTRODUCTION
A brief description of the aureole technique for non-specialized visitors. -
INSTRUMENTS
A description and comparison of instruments handled by ESR. -
METHODOLOGY
An explanation of the processing methodology of ESR. -
SITES
Select a site and visualize/download the processed data. -
DOWNLOAD
You can download the ESR.pack and get some related information. -
PUBLICATIONS
The main papers dealing with ESR methodology or their application. -
ANCILLARY
Place your question or comment and get other users feedback.
STAFF
Network PIs:
Monica Campanelli
and
Victor Estelles
Scientific/Technical advisor:
Henri Diémoz
Lunar analysis developmet:
Gaurav Kumar
Webmaster:
Flavio Marcozzi
Data Center maintenance:
Emanuele Costantini
News:
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January, 2022
The new inversions for standard products are migrating on ISDC:
International Skynet Data Center. -
October, 2019
The new inversion with Skyrad. A model has been set up for several sites. -
October, 2017
First QUATRAM campaign, Rome, Italy from 2 to 31 October 2017.
For infos visit the page:
QUATRAM Campaigns -
March, 2016
The International Skynet Workshop will be held in Rome, Italy, from 2 to 4 March 2016. For registration and infos visit the website:
International Skynet Workshop -
September, 2014
The first International Training Course for new ESR's users, was held in Rome by ISAC-CNR, Italy from 15 to 16 September 2014.
International Training Course -
April, 2014
The new sunrad 0.92 version can now be downloaded. It contains improvements for all the Prede instruments, and some bugs were fixed. -
September, 2012: The website content has been updated, for automatic SKYRAD processing of Level "0" and "1" of 3 sites: Rome, Aosta, Cambridge. Levels of processed data concerning SKYRAD inversion have been explained.
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November 2010: The second ESR network was held in Bologna, Italy.
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