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Quantifying the effects of mixing state on aerosol optical properties
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Jeffrey H. Curtis
Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Joseph Ching
Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0052, Japan
National Institute of Polar Research, 10-3 Midori-cho, Tachikawa, Tokyo, 190-8518, Japan
Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, 457-4 Motoyama, Kamigamo, Kita-ku, Kyoto, 603-8047, Japan
now at: Arid Land Research Center, Tottori University, 1390 Hamasaka, Tottori, 680-0001, Japan
Zhonghua Zheng
Computational and Information Systems Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO 80307, USA
Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO 80307, USA
Advanced Study Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO 80307, USA
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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Investigating the impacts of aerosol mixing state on aerosol optical properties has a long history from both the modeling and experimental perspective. In this study, we used particle-resolved simulations as a benchmark to determine the error in optical properties when using simplified aerosol representations. We found that errors in single scattering albedo due to the internal mixture assumptions can have substantial effects on calculating aerosol direct radiative forcing.
Investigating the impacts of aerosol mixing state on aerosol optical properties has a long...
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