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Effect of relative humidity on the angular distribution of scattered light intensity for rural and urban aerosols

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The change in atmospheric relative humidity affects the physical and optical properties of aerosol particles. It would be interesting to study the effect of an increase in relative humidity on the angular scattering of light by aerosols (by incorporating the changes due to it as the complex refractive index and the parameters of the size distribution function). In the present paper we have computed the angular scattering function for rural and urban aerosols, for light of wavelength 0.55 μn. The results obtained for these two models, representative of different environments, are interesting and show some discriminating features.

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  1. Department of Physics, University of Roorkee, 247 667, Roorkee, India

    R. K. Goel, N. C. Varshneya & T. S. Verma

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Goel, R.K., Varshneya, N.C. & Verma, T.S. Effect of relative humidity on the angular distribution of scattered light intensity for rural and urban aerosols. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Earth Planet Sci.) 93, 363–369 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02843254

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