Technical Note: Optical properties of desert aerosol with non-spherical mineral particles: data incorporated to OPAC

Koepke, P.; Gasteiger, J.; Hess, M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-5947-2015

Articles | Volume 15, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-5947-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-5947-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 10

Technical note

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29 May 2015

Technical note |

| 29 May 2015

Technical Note: Optical properties of desert aerosol with non-spherical mineral particles: data incorporated to OPAC

P. Koepke, J. Gasteiger, and M. Hess

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RC C181: 'Review to Manuscript from Koepke et al. (acp-2014-956)', Anonymous Referee #1, 12 Feb 2015
- AC C255: 'reply to the comment of referee#1', Peter Koepke, 17 Feb 2015
RC C291: 'Anonymous Referee #2', Anonymous Referee #2, 18 Feb 2015
AC C2064: 'acp-2014-956', Peter Koepke, 29 Apr 2015

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AR by Anna Wenzel on behalf of the Authors (30 Apr 2015) Author's response

ED: Publish as is (30 Apr 2015) by Paola Formenti

Short summary

Desert dust particles in general are not spherical, which changes their scattering functions against that for spheres that often are used for remote-sensing and radiation budget investigations. In the new version of the data base OPAC (Optical Properties of Aerosols and Clouds), which easily allows one to model a large range of microphysical and optical aerosol properties for individually decided component mixtures, now typical non-spherical mineral particles are taken into account.