Installation For Measuring Albedo - Kipp & Zonen SMP12 Instrucciones De Servicio

5 | Assembly

5.4 Installation for measuring albedo

An albedometer consists of two identical pyranometers that measure the incident radiation and the radiation
reflected by the surface below. Albedo is the ratio of the two radiation measurements and varies from 0 (dark)
to 1 (bright).
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4 Mount the upper pyranometer (see Chapter Mounting the pyranometer [} 28]).
4 Mount the lower pyranometer (see Chapter Installation for measuring reflected radiation [} 31]).
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1 Albedo mounting plate
2 Sun shade
3 Pyranometer
4 Light shade (white)
5 Mast (black)
6 Equator
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