Dean B. Atkinson

TL;DR: The Reno Aerosol Optics Study (RAOS) as mentioned in this paper was designed and conducted to compare the performance of many existing and new instruments for the in situ measurement of aerosol optical properties with a focus on determining aerosol light absorption.

TL;DR: A small portable system is described which is used to directly determine the optical extinction of the atmospheric aerosol, accomplished simultaneously at two wavelengths in the near-infrared (1064 nm) and visible (532 nm) using the pulsed cavity ring-down (CRD) approach.

TL;DR: This review focuses on applications of cavity ring-down spectroscopy that will be of interest to environmental chemists and analytical chemists working on environmental problems.

TL;DR: The US Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program's Carbonaceous Aerosol and Radiative Effects Study (CARES) carried out in June 2010 in Central Valley, California, was a comprehensive effort designed to improve the understanding of the possible interactions between urban and natural emissions in the production and transformation of atmospheric aerosol and the resulting impact on climate change.

TL;DR: In this paper, a general formalism for the production, characterization, and use of uniform supersonic flows for the study of structural and collisional molecular properties is presented, and a concise outline for the design of the Laval nozzles necessary to produce specified density and temperature conditions is presented.