Simultaneous Determination of Complex Refractive Index and Size Distribution of Airborne and Water-Suspended Particles from Light Scattering Measurements

Abstract

To estimate the complex refractive indices and the size distributions of aerosols and hydrosols from light scattering measurements, we present a data processing technique using both inversion and library methods. Extensive numerical simulations have shown that the true values of complex refractive index and size distribution are retrieved fairly well when this method is applied to measurements of polarization components of scattered radiation parallel and perpendicular to the scattering plane.