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Spectral solar variations during the eclipse of March 20, 2015 at two European sites

AIP Conference Proceedings, ISSN: 1551-7616, Vol: 1810
2017
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A total solar eclipse occurred on March 20th, 2015. The longest duration of totality was 2 minutes and 47 seconds off the coast of the Faroe Islands. It was visible in Europe and the only populated places from which the totality could be seen were the Faroe Islands and Svalbard. We report here on solar radiation measurements with various filter and spectral radiometers performed at Davos, Switzerland (46.8N, 9.8E) where the eclipse obscuration and magnitude were 66.9% and 0.729 respectively and Lindenberg, Germany (52.2N, 14.1E), (73% and 0.778). For the case of the 73% obscuration, spectral differences (between 380 nm to 865 nm) of 8% have been calculated from direct irradiance measurements and model calculations. In this work, using spectral measurements from different sensors, we also investigated possible factors that could cause spectral variations on the measured solar irradiance, such as the centre-to-limb variations (CLV) of the solar brightness that strongly depend on wavelengths. Finally, the observed decrease in total column ozone measured with Brewer spectrophotometrers during the eclipse could be partially explained by the spectral changes of the solar spectrum due to the CLV.

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Shapiro A.I.; Kazadzis S.; Kouremeti N.; Tagirov R.V.; Gröbner, Julian; Kazadzis, Stelios; Kouremeti, Natalia; Doppler, Lionel; Tagirov, Rinat; Shapiro, Alexander I.

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Physics and Astronomy

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