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Articles | Volume 16, issue 2
Articles | Volume 16, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-403-2023
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-403-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 16, issue 2
Research article
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24 Jan 2023
Research article |  | 24 Jan 2023

Investigating the dependence of mineral dust depolarization on complex refractive index and size with a laboratory polarimeter at 180.0° lidar backscattering angle

Alain Miffre, Danaël Cholleton, Clément Noël, and Patrick Rairoux

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The depolarization ratio of hematite, silica, Arizona and Asian dust is evaluated in a lab with a π-polarimeter operating at lidar 180 ° and at (355, 532) nm wavelengths. The hematite depolarization equals (10±1) % at 355 nm for coarser particles, while that of silica is (33±1) %. This huge difference is explained by accounting for the high imaginary part of the hematite complex refractive index, thus revealing the key role played by light absorption in mineral dust lidar depolarization.
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