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ri_smoke

Constants

🔥 SMOKE (Brown Carbon / Organic aerosol): complex refractive index m = n + i k, wavelength in nm. Assumptions: dry organic aerosol ("brown carbon"), ~300 K, bulk-effective constants; morphology not modeled. Purpose: radiometrically useful across 200–20,000 nm for graphics and physics; linear interpolation via ParameterLookupTable.

Spectral behavior encoded (representative):

  • UV (200–380 nm): strong absorption (large k), n slightly higher.
  • Visible (400–700 nm): moderate dispersion, weak-to-moderate absorption decreasing toward red (brownness).
  • NIR/SWIR (0.75–2.5 µm): generally weak k with small overtone bumps near 1.4–2.0 µm.
  • Mid-IR (2.7–5 µm): strong organic stretch complex near 3.2–3.5 µm (elevated k).
  • LWIR (6–12 µm): carbonyl/other organic modes around ~6 µm and bands near 6.8–7.3 µm; modest tail beyond.

Composite guidance/sources: Kirchstetter et al. (2004) AAE for brown carbon; Hoffer et al. (2006); Sumlin et al. (2017); generic organic/polymer optics (Querry compendium) for MIR/LWIR band shapes. Values are smooth/representative for modeling; species- and burn-condition variability is not captured.

Functions

💨 SMOKE (Brown Carbon / Organic aerosol)

SMOKE_REFRACTION_INDEX_LUT

🔥 SMOKE (Brown Carbon / Organic aerosol): complex refractive index m = n + i k, wavelength in nm. Assumptions: dry organic aerosol ("brown carbon"), ~300 K, bulk-effective constants; morphology not modeled. Purpose: radiometrically useful across 200–20,000 nm for graphics and physics; linear interpolation via ParameterLookupTable.

Spectral behavior encoded (representative):

  • UV (200–380 nm): strong absorption (large k), n slightly higher.
  • Visible (400–700 nm): moderate dispersion, weak-to-moderate absorption decreasing toward red (brownness).
  • NIR/SWIR (0.75–2.5 µm): generally weak k with small overtone bumps near 1.4–2.0 µm.
  • Mid-IR (2.7–5 µm): strong organic stretch complex near 3.2–3.5 µm (elevated k).
  • LWIR (6–12 µm): carbonyl/other organic modes around ~6 µm and bands near 6.8–7.3 µm; modest tail beyond.

Composite guidance/sources: Kirchstetter et al. (2004) AAE for brown carbon; Hoffer et al. (2006); Sumlin et al. (2017); generic organic/polymer optics (Querry compendium) for MIR/LWIR band shapes. Values are smooth/representative for modeling; species- and burn-condition variability is not captured.

Kind: global constant

ri_smoke(result, wavelength_nm)

💨 SMOKE (Brown Carbon / Organic aerosol)

Kind: global function

ParamTypeDescription
resultArray.<number>complex number, refraction index
wavelength_nmnumberin nanometers