Abstract Knowledge of the optical properties of soot black carbon (BC) is required for the
prediction of the radiative effects of freshly-emitted and aged BC particles. Here we review …

The optical properties of atmospheric black carbon (BC) aerosols are needed to model the
direct radiative forcing of the climate system, as well as for interpreting and assimilating …

Databases of the morphological parameters of fresh size‐resolved soot particles and their
systematic comparisons among various combustion sources are important to trace the soot …

Soot, a product of insufficient combustion, is usually in the form of aggregate. The multi-
scattering of soot fractal aggregates has been proved to play an important role in studying …

The mass absorption cross-section (MAC) of combustion-generated soot is used in pollution
and emissions measurements to quantify the mass concentration of soot and in atmospheric …

The structure of fractal-like aggregates is of increasing interest to a variety of fields extending
from combustion soot formation to synthesis of engineered nanoparticles. Nanoparticle …

The discrete dipole approximation (DDA) simulates optical properties of particles with any
given shape based on the volume discretization. These calculations cost a large amount of …

The morphological parameters of polydisperse aerosolized soot can be found by regressing
modeled angularly-resolved elastic light scattering to experimental measurements, but this …

Black carbon (BC), as the main absorbing aerosol in the atmosphere, has significant impacts
on climate forcing. In recent years, the BC radiative effects have gained increasing interest in …

Abstract Characterization of soot agglomerates often relies on the angular distribution of
their light scattering cross-section, C, that is based on the structure factor exponent, D s, and …