Mie scattering lidar was used to observe aerosol extinction coefficient profiles in the troposphere over Tsukuba (140 E, 36 N), Japan, for three years from March 1990 to February 1993, and data obtained in fair weather were analyzed. The lidar measurements were made by a vertical scanning mode to generate profiles of extinction coefficients from the lidar level to a 12-km altitude. The extincti...

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The sensitivity of aerosol radiative properties (i.e., scattering coefficient, extinction coefficient, single scatter albedo, and asymmetry factor) and radiation transmission to aerosol composition, size distributions, and relative humidity (RH) is examined in this paper. Mie calculations and radiation calculations using a tropospheric visible radiation model are performed. The aerosol systems ...

Isolated photosynthetic reaction center from the bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum was extracted with acetone-methanol. Its main pigments were identified as bacteriochlorophyll, bacteriopheophytin, and spirilloxanthin. The extinction coefficients of these pigments in acetone-methanol were determined. Quantitative spectroscopic analysis of the dry acetone-methanol extracts indicated a bacteriochlo...

Refractive index (RI) is a complex number comprising a real refractive index and an imaginary part: the absorption (or extinction) coefficient. The analysis of refractive index by the Surfoptic Imaging Reflectometer yields an approximation to the real part of the refractive index. The well established technique of ellipsometry, by contrast, can determine both the real refractive index and the e...

Ferric Species Standard ferric sulfate solutions were prepared by dissolving spectrographically pure iron rod (Johnson Matthey) in sulfuric acid and oxidizing with hydrogen peroxide. The decadic molar extinction coefficient of ferric ion in 0.8 N sulfuric acid at 24.9?C was found to be 2199 ? 4 liters mole-' cm-l at 304 m,/. The effect of a decrease of acidity and of added ferrous and cupric su...

As radiative transfer plays a key role in the forest fire propagation process, an accurate knowledge for the radiative properties of the vegetation has to be defined. Indeed, the radiative transfer is mainly depending on the extinction coefficient value. This coefficient for every kind of vegetation is usually evaluated using the well-known De Mestre correlation. This relation does not take int...