Aerosol | Components | Size distribution | Refractive index at 940 nm | Relative weight in total optical thickness at 500 nm | Vertical profile | ||
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Mode radius (μm) | Mode width | Real | Imaginary | ||||
Continental average | Water-soluble | 0.18 | 0.81 | 1.43 | 0.0074 | 0.90 | \(\exp \left( { - z/H} \right)\), H = 8 km |
Soot | 0.05 | 0.69 | 1.75 | 0.44 | 0.07 | \(\exp \left( { - z/H} \right)\), H = 4 km | |
Insoluble | 5.98 | 0.92 | 1.52 | 0.008 | 0.03 | \(\exp \left( { - z/H} \right)\), H = 2 km | |
Transported dust | Dust | 3.23 | 0.79 | 1.53 | 0.004 | 0.25 | \(\frac{1}{{\sqrt {2\pi \sigma } }}\exp \left( { - \frac{{\left( {z - z_{c} } \right)}}{{2\sigma^{2} }}} \right)\), zc = 3.5 km σ = 0.4 km |
Water-soluble | 0.18 | 0.81 | 1.43 | 0.0074 | 0.67 | \(\exp \left( { - z/H} \right)\), H = 8 km | |
Soot | 0.05 | 0.69 | 1.75 | 0.44 | 0.05 | \(\exp \left( { - z/H} \right)\), H = 4 km | |
Insoluble | 5.98 | 0.92 | 1.52 | 0.008 | 0.03 | \(\exp \left( { - z/H} \right)\), H = 2 km |