GEISA aerosol databank
The next edition of the GEISA spectroscopic databanks will contain aerosol data files:
I.
Integral optical characteristics (e.g. extinction coefficient, scattering phase function, etc...) of the basic aerosol components (e.g. Dust-Like, Water-Soluble, Soot, Volcanic ash, etc...) as well as files with refractive indices of some aerosol constituents:
Rublev A.N., Algoritms and the calculation of the aerosol phase functions. Preprint IAE-5715/16, Russian Research Center "Kurchatov Institut", Moscow, 1994. (in Russian).
A preliminary cloudless standard atmosphere for radiation computation. World Climate Research Program , WCP-112, WMO/TD-NO. 24, World Meteorological Organization, March 1986.
II.
Aerosol data in HITRAN standard format (same content as HITRAN-96):
Real and imaginary indices of refraction for water at 27 C between 10 and 5000 cm-1 :
Downing H.D., and Williams D., Optical constants of water in the infrared, J.Geophys.Res. , 1975, 80, 1656-1661.
Imaginary indices of refraction for water and ice in the 0.67 to 2.5 micron range:
Kou L., Labrie D., and Chylek P., Refractive indices of water and ice in the 0.65 to 2.5 micron range, Appl.Opt. 1993, 32, 3531-3540.
Real and imaginary indices of refraction of ice at -7 C for the 4.43e-2 to 167 micron range, and indices of ice at -1, -5, -20, and -60 C for the 167 to 8.6e6 micron range:
Warren S.G., Optical constants of ice from the ultraviolet to the microwave, Appl.Opt., 1994, 23, 1206-1225.
Real and imaginary indices of refraction for water, ice, sodium chloride, sea salt, water soluble aerosol, ammonium sulfate, carbonaceous aerosol, volcanic dust, sulfuric acid, meteoric dust, quartz, hematite, sand, and dust-like aerosol.
The data were tabulated by E.P. Shettle of the Naval Research Laboratory.
Real and imaginary indices of refraction of nitric acid trihydrate, nitric acid dihydrate, nitric acid monohydrate, and solid amorphous nitric acid solutions:
Toon O.B., Tolbert M.A., Koehler B.C., Middlebrook A.M., and Jordan J., The infrared optical constants of H2O-icd, amorphous nitric acid solutions, and nitric acid hydrates, J.Geophys.Res. (in press, 1994).
Real and imaginary indices of refraction of sulfuric acid solutions at 25, 38, 50, 75, 84.5, and 95.6% H2SO4, by weight:
Palmer K.F. and Dudley Williams, Optical constants of sulfuric acid; Application to the clouds of Venus?, Appl.Opt., 1975, 14, 208-219.
Real and imaginary indices of refraction of sulfuric acid solutions at 75 and 90% H2SO4, by weight, plus the standard deviations of the measurements. Real and imaginary indices of refraction of nitric acid solutions at 68% HNO3, by weight, plus the standard deviations of the measurements:
Remsberg E.E., Lavery D., and Crawford B., Optical constants for sulfuric and nitric acids, J.Chem. and Engin.Data , 1974, 19, 263-255.
Theoretical equilibrium composition (weight percentage of H2SO4) of sulfuric acid solutions, given as a function of temperature and H2O vapour pressure:
Steele H.M., and Hamill P., Effects of temperature and humidity on the growth and optical properties of sulphuric acid-water droplets in the stratosphere, J.Aerosol Sci., 1981, 12, 517-528.
Sulfuric acid density (gm/cm3) values for solutions between 0 and 100% H2SO4 (by weight) for temperatures between 0 and 60 C:
Timmermans J., The physico-chemical constants of binary systems in concentrated solutions, Interscience, New York, (1960).
Real and imaginary indices of refraction of H2O-ice, amorphous nitric acid solutions, and nitric acid hydrates:
Toon O.B., Tolbert M.A., Koehler B.C., Middlebrook A.M., and Jordan J., The infrared optical constants of H2O-ice, amorphous acid solutions, and nitric acid hydrates, J.Geophys.Res. (in press 1994).