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| Basic Aerosol Solid
Components Data Files
Complex Refraction Indices: m
= p-iq
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| component identifications- column 1; number of real and imaginary parts of
complex refractive index - column 2;
 temperature (K)- column 3;
 available spectral range (micron) - columns
4 to 7;
 references - column 8
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| Components* | # p/q
 refraction 
 indices | Temperature K | P | q | References |  
| Wavelength (micron) |  
| min | max | min | max |  
| Ammonium
Sulfate (Crystalline form) | 61/61 | T=293 K (assumed)
 | 0.2 | 40 | 0.2 | 40 | Toon et al., 1976 |  
| Ash | 61/61 | T=293 K (assumed)
 | 0.2 | 40 | 0.2 | 40 | Volz F., 1972a, 1973; Shettle and Fenn, 1979. |  
| Carbonaceous | 61/61 | T=293 K (assumed)
 | 0.2 | 40 | 0.2 | 40 | Shettle and Fenn, 1979; Twitty, J. T. and Weinman, 1971 |  
| Dust-Like | 61/61 | T=293 K (assumed)
 | 0.2 | 40 | 0.2 | 40 | Volz F., 1972a, 1973; Shettle and Fenn, 1979. |  
| Hematite (Iron Oxide) | 68/68 | T=293 K (assumed)
 | 0.2 | 300 | 0.2 | 300 | Longtin et al., 1988; Galuza et al., 1979; Kerker et al., 1979;
Steyer, 1974; Onari, 1977 |  
| Insoluble | 61/61 | T=293 K (assumed)
 | 0.25 | 40 | 0.25 | 40 | Shettle and Fenn, 1979 |  
| Meteoric
Dust | 62/62 |  | 0.2 | 50 | 0.2 | 50 | Fenn et al., 1985; Shettle, and Volz, 1976 |  
| Mineral
(nucleus mode) | 61/61 | T=293 K (assumed)
 | 0.25 | 40 | 0.25 | 40 | Carson and Benjamin, 1980; Sokolik et al., 1993 |  
| Mineral
(accumulation mode) | 61/61 | T=293 K (assumed)
 | 0.25 | 40 | 0.25 | 40 | Carson and Benjamin, 1980; Sokolik et al., 1993 |  
| Mineral
(coarse mode) | 61/61 | T=293 K (assumed)
 | 0.25 | 40 | 0.25 | 40 | Carson and Benjamin, 1980; Sokolik et al., 1993 |  
| Mineral-transported | 61/61 | T=293 K (assumed)
 | 0.25 | 40 | 0.25 | 40 | Carson and Benjamin, 1980; Sokolik et al., 1993 |  
| Quartz | 68/68 | T=293 K (assumed)
 | 0.2 | 300 | 0.2 | 300 | Gray, 1963; Drummond, 1936; Spitzer, and Kleinman, 1961; Philipp,
1985; Longtin et al., 1988. |  
| Sand | 68/68 | T=293 K (assumed)
 | 0.2 | 300 | 0.2 | 300 | Longtin et al., 1988 |  
| Sea
Salt (Crystalline form) | 61/61 | T=293 K (assumed)
 | 0.2 | 40 | 0.2 | 40 | Dorsey, 1940; Volz, 1972a; Shettle and Fenn, 1979;
 |  
| Sea
salt (accumulation mode) | 61/61 | T=293 K (assumed)
 | 0.25 | 40 | 0.25 | 40 | Shettle and Fenn, 1979 |  
| Sea
salt (coarse mode) | 61/61 | T=293 K (assumed)
 | 0.25 | 40 | 0.25 | 40 | Shettle and Fenn, 1979 |  
| Sodium
Chloride (Crystalline form) | 90/90 | T=293 K (assumed)
 | 0.2 | 30000 | 0.2 | 30000 | Eldridge and Palik, 1985 |  
| Soot | 61/61 | T=293 K (assumed)
 | 0.25 | 40 | 0.25 | 40 | Shettle and Fenn, 1979 |  
| Volcanic
Dust | 61/61 | T=293 K (assumed)
 | 0.2 | 40 | 0.2 | 40 | Volz, F. E. , 1973 |  |