Determination of Marine Aerosol Properties Using a Bistatic Nephelometer

Abstract

Our long-term goal is to develop methods to characterize remotely the optical properties of aerosols in the marine atmospheric boundary layer (MABL). The method is based on instruments and analytic methods that use angle-dependent polarization information from the light scattered by aerosols. The information derived from these measurements will enable accurate prediction of the aerosol optical properties and consequently their effect on light propagation in the MABL.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1999
Accession Number
ADA630861

Entities

People

  • Arlon J. Hunt
  • Mary S. Quinby-hunt

Organizations

  • University of California, Berkeley

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amplifiers
  • Boundary Layer
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Lasers
  • Light Scattering
  • Light Sources
  • Marine Atmospheres
  • Measurement
  • Mie Scattering
  • Modulation
  • Nephelometers
  • Optical Properties
  • Particles
  • Polarization
  • Polarizing Filters
  • Scattering

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science
  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerosol Science/Aerosol Physics
  • Electromagnetic Wave Scattering and Antenna Radiation Engineering
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers