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Fig. 5.3 Total average mean volume radius and total number concentration for Davos and Mauna
Loa for 2010 and Izana for 2009, the corresponding number of daily average data sets being 54,
180, and 133
The universal aerosol size spectrum, a function of the total aerosol number concen-
tration and the mean volume radius alone, will have applications in computation of
radiation balance of earth-atmosphere system in climate models.
Acknowledgements The author is grateful to Dr. Christoph_Wehrli, Dr. Brent. N. Holben, and
Dr. Philippe Goloub, the respective principal investigators of AERONET sites Davos, Mauna Loa,
and Izana and their team members for free and generous distribution of aerosol data to the scien-
tific community and their efforts in establishing and maintaining the AERONET sites.
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