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Mishchenko 1990

Mishchenko, M.I., 1990: Physical properties of the upper tropospheric aerosols in the Equatorial Region of Jupiter. Icarus, 84, 296-304, doi:10.1016/0019-1035(90)90039-C.

Physical properties of the upper tropospheric aerosols in the Equatorial Region of Jupiter are estimated by means of interpretation of ground-based spectropolarimetric and spectrophotometric observations of the center of the Jovian disk. It was assumed that the upper cloud layer of the Jovian atmosphere is homogeneous and optically thick (semi-infinite), and contains gas and homogeneous spherical particles. Two different particle size distributions were used, namely a gamma distribution and modified gamma distribution. The best agreement between the observational data and computations for both size distributions was found for an effective radius of aerosols r_eff = 0.39 ± 0.08 µm and a real part of the refractive index n_r 1.39 ± 0.01. The results were obtained by means of multiple scattering calculations with full account of polarization.

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@article{mi00400a,
  author={Mishchenko, M. I.},
  title={Physical properties of the upper tropospheric aerosols in the Equatorial Region of Jupiter},
  year={1990},
  journal={Icarus},
  volume={84},
  pages={296--304},
  doi={10.1016/0019-1035(90)90039-C},
}

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