Sky Photometer

The sky radiometer: an instrument that measures the extent to which light from the Sun is scattered as it travels through the Earth’€™s atmosphere. This allows us to calculate the size and density of the particles that are scattering the light (mainly things like sea salt, volcanic dust and man-made pollutants).

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Steve Colwell

Head of Meteorology and Ozone monitoring

Atmosphere, Ice and Climate team