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6 The antarctic baseline aerosol annual cycle in particle size distribution and particle volume concentration After establishing that the baseline aerosol light scattering annual

We then summarize airborne measurements, made in the troposphere of the Alaskan Arctic, of aerosol particle size distributions, composition, and optical proper- ties and discuss

Satellite, tracer transport model, and meteorological data sets are used here to determine a net aerosol–cloud inter- action (ACI net ) parameter that expresses the ratio of

Figure 19: The reduction in the actinic flux at 380 nm due to clouds as a function of solar zenith angle for a few selected effective cloud optical depths τ.... The

Airborne in situ measurements were performed in the ash cloud by the German Falcon research aircraft (Schumann et al., 2011), measuring ash volume size distribution with a

Seasonality of aerosol optical properties – includ- ing the aerosol light-scattering coefficient, absorption coef- ficient, single-scattering albedo, scattering Ångström expo- nent,

As cloud radiative properties are potentially sensitive to CCN and IN concentrations, we need to monitor not only the clouds and their characteristics (cloud boundaries, cloud

We present a novel approach for capturing the important effects of multiple anisotropic Mie scattering within cloud layers (i.e., stratiform clouds), and the inter-reflections