Affiliation:
1. Atmospheric Aerosol Group, Institute of Applied Geosciences, Technical University of Darmstadt, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany
Abstract
We model the effects of the photosensitive parameters of aerosols on their optical properties to provide a solid framework for further experimental and theoretical studies. A spherical dust particle is used to study the effects of the ambient medium, size, surface roughness, wavelength, and imaginary part of the complex refractive index. Five Gaussian random spheres with different aspect ratios are simulated to study the dependence of aerosol light scattering properties on particle shape distribution. To investigate the influence of composition, we model two typical kaolinite-like particles (pure and composite) collected from Southwest Sahara, with 0 and 2% hematite at different mixing states. Using the method of discrete-dipole approximation in DDSCAT, a comparative study is performed with the Mueller matrix elements, scattering, absorption, extinction efficiencies, single scattering albedo, and linear depolarization ratio as indicators. For single, microscopic dust particles, near-field calculations are carried out. The results show that the intensity of backscattering and the scattering efficiency decreases in water compared to dry air. Light in the visible range is more efficient for aerosol scattering experiments. A small number of impurities in the sample will increase its absorbing properties, but, in general, the scattering efficiencies strongly depend on the single-particle mixing state. Smaller particles with a diameter comparable to the wavelength of incident light show higher scattering efficiencies but lower backscattering intensities than larger particles, while surface roughness is shown to strongly alter the polarizability of the particle but has a negligible effect on its single-scattering albedo. Moreover, different shapes have a strong effect on the degree of linear polarization, but, in general, using the spherical over elliptic shape model can underestimate the scattering efficiencies by up to 4%. Finally, variation in the imaginary part of the complex RI can underestimate the single scattering albedo by up to 35.8%.
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