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Measurements and calculations of enhanced side- and back-scattering of visible radiation by black carbon aggregates
Carynelisa Haspel
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Fredy and Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9190401, Israel
Cuiqi Zhang
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Martin J. Wolf
Yale School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
Daniel J. Cziczo
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Maor Sela
Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PU, UK
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Small particles, commonly termed aerosols, can be found throughout the atmosphere and come from both natural and anthropogenic sources. One important type of aerosol is black carbon (BC). In this study, we conducted laboratory measurements of light scattering by particles meant to mimic atmospheric BC and compared them to calculations of scattering. We find that it is likely that calculations underpredict the scattering by BC particles of certain polarizations of light in certain directions.
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