Using spectral methods to obtain particle size information from optical data: applications to measurements from CARES 2010

Atkinson, Dean B.; Pekour, Mikhail; Chand, Duli; Radney, James G.; Kolesar, Katheryn R.; Zhang, Qi; Setyan, Ari; O'Neill, Norman T.; Cappa, Christopher D.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-5499-2018

Articles | Volume 18, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-5499-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-5499-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 8

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23 Apr 2018

Research article |

| 23 Apr 2018

Using spectral methods to obtain particle size information from optical data: applications to measurements from CARES 2010

Dean B. Atkinson, Mikhail Pekour, Duli Chand, James G. Radney, Katheryn R. Kolesar, Qi Zhang, Ari Setyan, Norman T. O'Neill, and Christopher D. Cappa

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RC1: 'Review of Atkinson et al. 2017', Anonymous Referee #2, 17 Nov 2017
RC2: 'Review of ‘Using Spectral Methods to Obtain Particle Size Information from Optical Data: Applications to Measurements from CARES 2010’, by Atkinson et al., 2017.', Anonymous Referee #1, 20 Nov 2017
RC3: 'Review of Atkinson et al.', Anonymous Referee #3, 21 Nov 2017
AC1: 'Response to Reviewers', Christopher Cappa, 19 Mar 2018

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We use in situ measurements of particle light extinction to assess the performance of a typical aerosol remote retrieval method. The retrieved fine-mode fraction of extinction, a property commonly used to characterize the anthropogenic influence on the aerosol optical depth, compares well with the in situ measurements as does the retrieved effective fine-mode radius, which characterizes the average size of the particles that contribute most to scattering.