====== Optical properties of aerosols ======
 
==== Calculated data ====

   * A database of **optical properties of single modeled aspherical aerosol particles**, supplemented by mixing routines is available on request. Please contact [[josef.gasteiger@lmu.de|Josef Gasteiger]] if you are interested. More information can be found in [[http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/11/2209/2011/acp-11-2209-2011.html|Gasteiger et al., 2011]].

   * **OPAC database** (Hess, M., Koepke, P., and Schult, I.: //Optical Properties of Aerosols and Clouds: The Software Package OPAC//, B. Am. Meteor. Soc., 79, 831–844, 1998.) \\ The original database includes only scalar optical properties. Therefore the Mie-calculations have been repeated and the [[http://www.libradtran.org/bin/OPAC-v2.0.tar.gz|data including the full phase matrices]] are available in the format required by the libRadtran RT model. More information and examples of use can be found in [[http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/10/383/2010/acp-10-383-2010.html|Emde et al., 2010]].





==== Measured data ====

  * [[http://www.iaa.es/scattering/|Amsterdam-Granada Light Scattering Database]]
====== Optical properties of ice crystals ======

==== Calculated data ====

  * **Database for ice crystal optical properties is now available!** Please contact [[pyang@geos.tamu.edu|Ping Yang]].\\ \\ Publication: Ping Yang, Lei Bi, Bryan A. Baum, Kuo-Nan Liou, George W. Kattawar, Michael I. Mishchenko and Benjamin Cole, //Spectrally consistent scattering, absorption, and polarization properties of atmospheric ice crystals at wavelengths from 0.2 μm to 100 μm//, J. Atmos. Sci., 70, 330–347, 2013




==== Measured data ====



====== Tools to compute optical properties of aspherical particles ======

  * [[http://tools.tropos.de/|Ray-tracing codes by A. Macke]]
  
  * [[http://www.giss.nasa.gov/staff/mmishchenko/t_matrix.html|T-matrix codes by M. Mishchenko]]