Vol. 2, issue 03, article # 5

pdf Ginzburg A. S. Meteorological visual range under huge aerosol overburden. // Atmospheric and oceanic optics. 1989. V. 2. No. 03. P. 200-205.
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Abstract:

It is shown in this paper that meteorological visual range in the lower layers of the atmosphere overloaded with large amounts of light absorbing aerosols does depend not only on the amount of aerosol along the viewing direction but also on the vertical thickness of the aerosol layer. This is caused by strong decrease of illuminance below the aerosol layer that can lead to a sufficient increase of the threshold contrast. Such a relation between the contrast and aerosol layer parameters could provide for assessment of the aerosol emission power, the optical properties of aerosol and visual range being known.

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