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http://dx.doi.org/10.3807/KJOP.2015.26.2.073

SI-traceable Calibration of a Transmissometer for Meteorological Optical Range (MOR) Observation  

Park, Seongchong (Division of Physical Metrology, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science)
Lee, Dong-Hoon (Division of Physical Metrology, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science)
Kim, Yong-Gyoo (Division of Physical Metrology, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science)
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Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics / v.26, no.2, 2015 , pp. 73-82 More about this Journal
Abstract
This work demonstrates the indoor SI-traceable calibration of a transmissometer with a 75-m baseline for the measurement of visibility in MOR (Meteorological Optical Range). The calibration is performed using a set of neutral density (ND) filters (OD 0.1-2.5) and a set of high-transmission quartz glass plates (a bare quartz glass plate and antireflective-coated quartz glass plates), the collection consisting of 20 artifacts in total. The luminous transmittance values of the reference artifacts had been calibrated traceable to the KRISS spectral transmittance scale, which ranges from 0.2 % to 99.5 %. The transmissometer to be calibrated typically consists of a loosely collimated light source based on a white LED (CCT ~5000 K) and a luminous intensity detector with a CIE 1924 V(${\lambda}$) spectral response. As a result of calibration, we obtained the MOR error and its uncertainty for the transmissometer in 20 m - 40 km of MOR. Based on the results, we investigated the applicability of the calibration method and the conformity of the transmissometer to the ICAO's (International Civil Aviation Organization) accuracy requirement for meteorological visibility measurement. We expect that this work will establish the standard procedure for the SI-traceable calibration of a transmissometer.
Keywords
Visibility measurement; Luminous transmittance; Transmissometer;
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