Ping Xian Yang

Effects of Mineralogical Inhomogeneity on Aggregate Dust Optical Properties and Lidar Observables

Abstract Dust aerosols comprise irregular grains and aggregates with various mineralogical mixtures. However, most optical models use effective refractive indices to represent particles. This study develops an inhomogeneous aggregate model assigning mineral‐dependent refractive i...

Spaceborne Far‐Infrared Signal Simulations Over the Antarctic Plateau With Temperature‐Dependent Ice Cloud Optical Properties

Abstract Longwave cloud radiative effects significantly influence variability in global and regional Earth systems. However, there have been very few, if any, measurements of the far‐infrared (FIR) radiation over the polar regions, where about half of the outgoing longwave radiat...