Geometric modeling of aerosol surface roughness and numerical simulation of its impact on aerosol optical properties

Abstract

A stochastic method is introduced for geometric modeling aerosol surface roughness with random field and discrete differential geometry theory. Optical scattering properties are computed for randomly oriented spheroidal particles with uniformly random surface roughness. Invariant imbedding T-Matrix and geometric optics method are applied to compute light scattering properties of aerosol particles covered from Rayleigh to geometric optics region. We simulatied scattering phase matrix of model particles, better performace is obtained than smooth particles. We aslo introduce introduce entropy and relative entropy as measures to distinguish the optical scattering similarities between different particles.