The fine particle surface roughness affects light scattering

Studies conducted by the Finnish Meteorological Institute suggest that the degree of small particle roughness has a clear impact particularly on the scattering back of light. The data can be used to improve, for example, the measurement and modelling results.

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Researcher Osku Kemppinen, tel. +358 50 463 4385, osku.kemppinen@fmi.fiSenior researcher Timo Nousiainen, tel. +358 50 441 5451, timo.nousiainen@fmi.fi

Osku Kemppinen, Timo Nousiainen, Hannakaisa Lindqvist, The impact of surface roughness on scattering by realistically shaped wavelength-scale dust particles, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, Volume 150, January 2015, Pages 55-67, ISSN 0022-4073, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2014.05.024.

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