The understanding of aerosol properties in troposphere, especially their behavior near the ground level, is indispensable for precise evaluation of their impact on the Earth’s radiation studies. Although a sunphotometer or a skyradiometer can provide the aerosol optical thickness (AOT), their application is limited to daytime under near cloud free conditions. In order to attain the multi-wavelength observation for both day- and night-time including cloudy conditions, here we propose a novel monitoring technique by means of simultaneous measurement using a nephelometer (450, 550, and 700 nm), an aethalometer (370, 470, 520, 590, 660, 880, and 950 nm), and a visibility meter (550 nm). On the basis of the multi-wavelength data of scattering and absorption coefficients from the nephelometer and aethalometer, respectively, first we calculate the real-time values of aerosol extinction coefficient in addition to the Angstrom exponent (AE). Then, correction of these values is carried out by comparing the resulting extinction coefficient with the corresponding value obtained from the optical data of visibility-meter. The major reason for this correction is the loss of relatively coarse particles due to the aerodynamic effect as well as evaporation of water content from particles during the sampling procedure. Then, with the ancillary data of vertical aerosol profile obtained with a lidar (532 nm), the temporal change of AOT is estimated. In this way, information from the sampling can be converted to the ambient properties in the atmospheric boundary layer. Furthermore, daytime data from a sunphotometer (368, 500, 675, and 778 nm) and a skyradiometer (340, 380, 400, 500, 675, 870, and 1020 nm) are used to validate the resulting AOT values. From the overall procedure, we can estimate the AE and AOT values from the sampling data, with uncertainties of approximately 5% for AE and 10% for AOT. Such a capability will be useful for studying aerosol properties throughout 24 hours regardless of the solar radiation and cloud coverage.
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