Abstract
Aerosol mass efficiencies for extinction, scattering, and absorption are important parameters to understand aerosol optical properties. Although the mass efficiency is functions of the refractive index and particle size distribution, due to the complexity of the efficiency, mass efficiency parameters are usually regarded as a size independent and assumed to depend mainly on the chemical composition of aerosols. In this study, we calculated the mass efficiencies of polydispersed aerosols based on different aerosol types. An analytical approach to the approximated formula of the mass efficiency of each chemical species was developed and evaluated by fitting the results to those of the Mie theory that calculated the optical properties of chemical species based on the refractive index and size. We used the lognormal size distributions and external mixture approximations that represent the polydispersity of aerosol particles. Size ranges of 0.5–2.5 µm in the geometric mean diameter were considered for five different chemical species. The parameters of fitting curves were generalized for polydispersed aerosols as functions of the geometric mean diameter and the geometric standard deviation. The results of the newly developed analytic approach showed a good agreement with those of the Mie theory. The proposed approach provides an effective means to estimate the mass extinction efficiency of polydispersed multi-component aerosols.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1503-1514 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Aerosol and Air Quality Research |
Volume | 18 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This research was supported by the National Strategic Project-Fine particle of the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT), the Ministry of Environment (ME), and the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) (NRF-2017M3D8A1092022) and by the KOPRI program (PN18081), funded by National Research Foundation of Korea Grant (NRF-2016M1A5A1901786). This research was also supported by the Korea Meteorological Administration Research and Development Program under grant CATER 2014-3190.
Publisher Copyright:
© Taiwan Association for Aerosol Research.
Keywords
- Analytical approach
- Mass absorption efficiency
- Mass scattering efficiency
- Mie theory
- Polydisperse aerosol particles