In situ measurements of aerosol optical properties were made in summer 2008 at the ALOMAR station facility (69◦ 16 N, 16◦ 00 E), located at a rural site in the North of the island of Andøya (Vesteralen archipelago), about 300 km north of the Arctic Circle. The extended three months campaign was part of the POLAR-CAT Project of the International Polar Year (IPY-2007-2008), and its goal was to characterize the aerosols of this sub-Arctic area which frequently transporte to the Arctic region. The ambient lightscattering coefficient, σs (550 nm), at ALOMAR had a hourly mean value of Mm−1 (StD = Mm−1) and the light-absorption coefficient, σa (550 nm), had an hourly mean value of Mm−1 (StD = Mm−1 10). | Absorption, scattering and single scattering albedo of aerosols obtained from in situ measurements in the subarctic coastal region of Norway
