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OSN - Sahara Desert Dust
| origin | collected from the roof of the OSN observatory after a dust intrusion in 2004. |
| main constituent | quartz, clay minerals and calcium carbonate |
| practical significance | interpretation of remote sensing data. Analogues of other planets' atmospheric dust, and dust in comets, asteroids, and circumstellar shells |
| particle size | measured size distributions Mie: reff=4.0 μm, veff=1.8 Fraunhofer: reff=2.5 μm, veff=2.5 |
| particle shape | irregular |
| refractive index | estimated to be in the range [1.5 -1.7] + i[0.00001-0.001] |
| color | green powder |
| scattering matrix | 488 nm 647 nm |
| article | Gómez Martín JC, Guirado D, Frattin E, Bermudez-Edo M, Cariñanos Gonzalez P, Olmo Reyes FJ, Nousiainen T, Gutiérrez PJ, Moreno F, Muñoz. On the application of scattering matrix measurements to detection and identification of major types of airborne aerosol particles: Volcanic ash, desert dust and pollen. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 271, p. 107761, 2021 |
