Technical Note: Optical properties of desert aerosol with non-spherical mineral particles: data incorporated to OPAC

Koepke, P.; Gasteiger, J.; Hess, M.

doi:10.5194/acp-15-5947-2015

Articles | Volume 15, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-5947-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-5947-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 10

Technical note

|

29 May 2015

Technical note |

| 29 May 2015

Technical Note: Optical properties of desert aerosol with non-spherical mineral particles: data incorporated to OPAC

P. Koepke, J. Gasteiger, and M. Hess

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Short summary

Desert dust particles in general are not spherical, which changes their scattering functions against that for spheres that often are used for remote-sensing and radiation budget investigations. In the new version of the data base OPAC (Optical Properties of Aerosols and Clouds), which easily allows one to model a large range of microphysical and optical aerosol properties for individually decided component mixtures, now typical non-spherical mineral particles are taken into account.