Optical properties of internally mixed ammonium sulfate and soot particles - A study of individual aerosol particles and ambient aerosol populations

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 3835-3845

  Worringen, Annette ^a,b   Ebert, Martin ^b   Trautmann, Thomas ^c   Weinbruch, Stephan ^b   Helas, Günter ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; DUST; GEOMETRY; MIXING; SOOT; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

AEROSOL PARTICLES; AMBIENT AEROSOLS; AMMONIUM SULFATE; DISCRETE DIPOLE APPROXIMATION METHOD; MIXED PARTICLES; MODEL GEOMETRY; OPTICAL PARAMETER; SOOT PARTICLES;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

AMMONIUM SULFATE;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG MIXTURE; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHOTOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SOOT;

AEROSOLS; AMMONIUM SULFATE; COMPLEX MIXTURES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; PARTICULATE MATTER; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOOT;

EID: 51949118860     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.003835     Document Type: Article

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