Can particle shape information be retrieved from light-scattering observations using spheroidal model particles?

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 112, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 2213-2225

  Nousiainen, Timo ^a   Kahnert, Michael ^b   Lindqvist, Hannakaisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Cosmic dust; Inverse modelling; Irregular shapes; Light scattering; Mineral dust; Shape distributions; Spheroids; Volcanic dust

Indexed keywords

COSMIC DUSTS; INVERSE MODELLING; IRREGULAR SHAPE; MINERAL DUST; SHAPE DISTRIBUTION; SPHEROIDS; VOLCANIC DUST;

ASPECT RATIO; CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; DUST; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTIMIZATION; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPHERES;

MATRIX ALGEBRA;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GAUSSIAN METHOD; LIGHT SCATTERING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARTICLE SIZE; POLARIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 79960925341     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2011.05.008     Document Type: Article

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