Optical studies of smoke aerosols: an inversion method and its applications

Abstract
An optical method of investigating atmospheric aerosol is described. The numerical scheme for determining the microstructure and the refractive index of an aerosol from angular measurements of the polarization-scattering phase functions is described. Studies of the refractive index and microstructure of woody-smoke aerosols that depend on the relative humidity of the air have been carried out on the basis of the method described.