Question: Mie scattering?

[jonnyhyman]

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]

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.