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Collections of particulates on both Los Alamos Scientific | |
Laboratory (LASL) and National Center for Atmospheric | |
Research (NCAR) filter systems were made from an RB 57F | |
aircraft flown at one tropospheric and six stratospheric | |
altitudes over the Boulder, Colorado, area. This daytime | |
flight was spanned by lidar returns on evenings before | |
and after the flight. Scanning electron microscope | |
examination of the LASL filters showed no evidence of | |
solid particulates greater than 2 micrometers (the | |
instrumental resolving power). Quantitative analysis of | |
the NCAR filters yielded chemical composition and mass. | |
The mass values were normalized to the total air flow | |
through the filters to yield mass mixing ratios at the | |
various altitudes. The lidar returns, normalized to | |
molecular densities obtained from sonde data, were put in | |
the form of particulate scattering divided by molecular | |
scattering, i. e., an optical mixing ratio. A plot of the | |
optical mixing ratio versus mass mixing ratio, in the | |
stratosphere, yielded linear relationship, for five of | |
the six data points, going through the origin. | |
Date Published: 2016-07-13 05:31:12 | |
Identifier: NASA_NTRS_Archive_20160007639 | |
Item Size: 577239 | |
Language: english | |
Media Type: texts | |
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