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What property of a haze is determined by light scattering?
Author(s) -
McKellar Bruce H. J.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
quarterly journal of the royal meteorological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.744
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1477-870X
pISSN - 0035-9009
DOI - 10.1002/qj.49710042616
Subject(s) - rayleigh scattering , haze , scattering , property (philosophy) , light scattering , physics , computational physics , mathematical analysis , mathematics , optics , meteorology , philosophy , epistemology
Abstract We develop a criterion for estimating the conditions under which two polydisperse hazes will give identical scattering of light in the single scattering approximation. This criterion, that equivalent hazes have the one value of the parameter p 2 = R 8 / R 6 , is derived from the Rayleigh‐Gans approximation to small angle scattering. We find that it is well satisfied by hazes which have been found to give identical scattering.