Articles | Volume 19, issue 19
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-12767-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-12767-2019
Research article
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11 Oct 2019
Research article |  | 11 Oct 2019

Optical properties of meteoric smoke analogues

Tasha Aylett, James S. A. Brooke, Alexander D. James, Mario Nachbar, Denis Duft, Thomas Leisner, and John M. C. Plane

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Short summary
Interplanetary dust particles entering the Earth's atmosphere often melt and evaporate, injecting metals such as iron and magnesium into the atmosphere between 80 and 105 km. These metals become oxidized and then coagulate into small particles a few nanometres is size, known as meteoric smoke. In this study, iron oxide smoke particles were created in the laboratory, and their composition and optical properties were determined in order to understand satellite measurements.
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