A Wind Dependent Desert Aerosol Model: Radiative Properties

Abstract

This report presents a desert aerosol model that predicts aerosol radiative properties during background and severe dust storm conditions. The model treats the desert aerosol as an external mixture of natural carbon, water soluble and sand particles. The sand consists of two kinds of particles, pure quartz and quartz contaminated with a small amount of hematite. Mie calculations are performed using different size distributions and indices of refraction for each type of particle, and then a volume-weighting scheme is used to obtain the radiative properties of the aerosol as a whole. Attenuation coefficients, single scattering albedo and asymmetry parameter are given for 68 wavelengths between 0.2 and 300 micro. The results indicate that extinction is wavelength dependent for background conditions, but increases and becomes nearly constant for dust storm conditions. Indices of refraction, Desert aerosol, Aerosol modeling, Single scattering albedo, Radiative transfer, Optical properties.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 19, 1988
Accession Number
ADA201951

Entities

People

  • David R. Longtin
  • Eric P. Shettle
  • James D. Pryce
  • John R. Hummel

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Absorption Coefficients
  • Air Force
  • Chemistry
  • Dust Storms
  • Environment
  • Equations
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Mie Scattering
  • Optical Properties
  • Physical Properties
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Radiation
  • Refraction
  • Refractive Index
  • Scattering
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Aerosol Science/Aerosol Physics
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation