Particle size distribution and optical properties of Arctic haze

Jost Heintzenberg

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v32i3.10580

Particle size distribution and optical properties of Arctic haze

Tellus

Volume 32 (1980): Issue 3

By: Jost Heintzenberg

Open Access

|Jan 1980

Abstract

Simultaneous aerosol measurements with particle counters and a multiwavelength integrating nephelometer have been made at Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard (12° E, 79° N). The measured integral aerosol properties were used in an inversion procedure to derive a consistent model of the particle size distribution of Arctic haze. The obtained size distribution is compared to the global background aerosol size distribution. Both the light scattering coefficients and the total suspended volume of particles were found to be on the level of the global background.

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