14th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Assoc

P1.1

Quantifying the Effect of Humidity on Aerosol Scattering with a Raman Lidar

Raymond Rogers, JCET/Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; and K. McCann and R. M. Hoff

Change in the scattering properties of aerosols due to changes in humidity is a significant and important unknown quantity in the aerosol indirect effect. This paper describes an experiment in which a Raman lidar is used to measure profiles of aerosol extinction and water vapor. From these measurements, the effect of the hygroscopic growth of suburban aerosols on aerosol scattering and extinction are determined. The calculated results are compared to model computations.

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Poster Session 1, Poster Session
Wednesday, 1 February 2006, 2:30 PM-4:45 PM, Exhibit Hall A2

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