A fixed dynamical heating model is used to investigate the pattern of zonal‐mean
stratospheric temperature change resulting from geoengineering with aerosols composed of …

Radiative transfer calculations as well as satellite and ground‐based retrieval algorithms
often use Mie theory to account for atmospheric mineral dust. However, the approximations …

In principle, observations from hyperspectral infrared (IR) sounders such as IASI (infrared
atmospheric sounding interferometer) can be used to simultaneously retrieve dust aerosol …

Simultaneous size distributions and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) extinction spectra have
been measured for several representative components of mineral dust aerosol (quartz …

Polarized white light interferometry is used to characterize the wavelength dependence of
the birefringence, group birefringence and retardance of a gypsum crystal. Two different …

Because it is possible that Mars experienced an ancient climate warmer and wetter than the
present one, it is reasonable to suppose that simple forms of life developed there, in the …

Hematite is an iron oxide very important for the study of climatic evolution of Mars. It can
occur in two forms: red and grey, mainly depending on the granulometry of the samples …

Searching for traces of extinct and/or extant life on the surface of Mars is one of the major
objectives for remote-sensing and in-situ exploration of the planet. In the present paper we …

In this paper, the thermal decomposition kinetics of a class of minerals that we call White Soft
Minerals (WSMs) is studied by means of theoretical and experimental methods, in …

The optical scattering properties of non-spherical calcium carbonate particles were
modelled using the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. This algorithm is …