Direct evaluation of aerosol mass loadings from multispectral extinction data

✍ Scribed by Michael A. Box; Bruce H. J. McKellar

• Book ID: 104575151
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1978
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 350 KB
• Volume: 104
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0035-9009
• DOI: 10.1002/qj.49710444118

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

We derive a formula for the evaluation of the total volume of aerosol in a column, and hence for the aerosol columnar mass loading, from multispectral extinction data. This formula is exact in the ‘anomalous diffraction’ approximation, and reasonably accurate for Mie scattering, over a fairly wide range of refractive indices typical of real aerosols.