ONE-YEAR ANALYSIS OF MEASUREMENTS WITH SOLAR PHOTOMETER IN THE NORTHWEST OF GREAT BUENOS AIRES AREA

Abstract

This paper presents a first photometric study of the aerosol charge in the northwest of ​​ Great Buenos Aires area, specifically on the campus of the National University of General Sarmiento (UNGS) in Los Polvorines. For this purpose, one year of manual measurements with a solar photometer has been used and the aerosol optical depth (AOD) calculations were corroborated with the Lambert-Beer law. The results of the AOD histogram at 465 nm and the Ångstrom coefficient vs AOD are related to the study area characteristics, with a clean atmosphere and aerosols categorized in the "clean continental" and "average" groups.