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Atmosphere Rendering Parameter Calculator
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Question: Mie scattering? #1

Open jonnyhyman opened 12 months ago

jonnyhyman commented 12 months ago

Curious if you have any ideas about calculating Mie scattering coefficients based on particulate density and/or species rather than the rough estimates typically used in implementations & papers?

Thanks for your excellent work on this and for open sourcing!

FarukEroglu2048 commented 11 months ago

Hi,

Firstly sorry for the late response and thanks for your nice comments! I'm not particularly knowledgeable about Mie scattering myself, so I'm not sure if it's something I can add to ARPC in near future but there are 2 great software / Python libraries that might be useful for this purpose. The first one is a software called MiePlot, and the second one is a Python library called miepython. Both are able to calculate both the scattering and absorption cross-sections for aerosols, as well as the Mie phase function.

There is also this website, though I haven't used it much: https://omlc.org/calc/mie_calc.html

I hope this helps! Feel free to ask if you have any further questions.