Articles | Volume 15, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-1021-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-1021-2022
Research article
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25 Feb 2022
Research article |  | 25 Feb 2022

Laboratory evaluation of the scattering matrix of ragweed, ash, birch and pine pollen towards pollen classification

Danaël Cholleton, Émilie Bialic, Antoine Dumas, Pascal Kaluzny, Patrick Rairoux, and Alain Miffre

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While pollen impacts public health and the Earth’s climate, the identification of each pollen taxon remains challenging. In this context, a laboratory evaluation of the polarimetric light-scattering characteristics of ragweed, ash, birch and pine pollen, when embedded in ambient air, is here performed at two wavelengths. Interestingly, the achieved precision of the retrieved scattering matrix elements allows unequivocal light scattering characteristics of each studied taxon to be identified.