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However, when observing the AOD with CE318 sun photometer in field environment, it was found that the AOD of silicon (Si) detector at 1020 nm and indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) detector at 1639 nm was strongly influenced by temperature due to the large temperature difference at the Dunhuang site. Based on the corresponding relationship between AOD and wavelength, the model of the calibration coefficients varying with temperature was established by nonlinear regression method in field environment. By comparing the AOD before and after temperature correction with the theoretical one, the ratio of data with relative error (RE) less than 5% increased from 0.195 and 0.14 to 0.894 and 0.355, respectively. By this method, calibration can be carried out without the limit of constant AOD. 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