Electromagnetic and Light Scattering by Particles

N e w s l e t t e r

July 2023

Issue 114

NASA PACE Application Workshop, September 6^th - 7^th, 2023

On behalf of NASA PACE Mission, we are thrilled to invite you to join us for our 4th annual PACE Applications Workshop! 

This event will focus on how the PACE mission and our community are preparing for the upcoming PACE launch. We will identify best practices and next steps to address and improve user readiness, prepare for PACE data integration and application functionality, and finally post-launch transition and application implementation. 

Workshop objectives:

• Provide an overview of PACE instruments, data, science & applications.
• Explore the state of user readiness leading up to launch, co-develop solutions for user preparation and sustained engagement, and share case studies in data integration and functionality for informing and improving decision-making.
• Identify best practices for implementing Earth science applications and working across diverse communities.
• Cultivate strategic partnerships and community engagement within the PACE Community of Practice, other Earth missions, resource managers, and decision-makers.

Register here!

Additional details will be made available on the event website as they become available. Please feel free to contact the PACE Applications team (pace-applications@oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov) with any questions.

We look forward to seeing you in September! 

The 20^th Electromagnetic and Light Scattering Conference (ELS-2023) JQSRT Topical Issue is open for submissions.

Manuscript submission information:

- Submission Deadline: 1-Mar-2024 (No need to wait until the very last moment!)

To submit your manuscript please go to Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer (at https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-quantitative-spectroscopy-and-radiative-transfer) and follow the procedures for manuscript submission.

When prompted for 'Enter Manuscript Information' you can select our Special Issue Article type as VSI: ELS-2023 at https://www.editorialmanager.com/jqsrt/default2.aspx.

Author Guidelines and Manuscript Submission can be found at: https://www.elsevier.com/journals/radiation-measurements/1350-4487/guide-for-authors.

Topics:

- New theoretical developments, numerical simulations, and laboratory measurements of light scattering by nonspherical and morphologically complex particles and particle groups

- Detection and characterization of atmospheric particulates using laboratory, in situ, and remote sensing techniques

- Scattering of light by terrestrial aerosols and clouds, oceanic particulates, solar system objects, exoplanets, stellar disks, and various astrophysical objects

- Applications of light scattering methods in biology and biomedicine

- Near-field and coherent effects in light scattering, optical trapping, and manipulation

- Light scattering methods to control material properties and technological applications.

If you have a manuscript, which fits the conference scope, either accepted or under review in JQSRT, you can support the conference and the community by asking editors to transfer you submission to the named Special Issue.

Best regards,

ELS-XX Topical Issue editors

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Request for help and collaboration

Dear Colleagues,

We have developed a new radiative transfer code. It is a 3D CPython volume rendering code, based on the raytracing approach presented by Pontoppidan et al. (ApJ, 704,1482,2009). The novelty regards considering wide particle size distribution, clouds of varied shapes and internal inhomogeneities (thin to thick optical depths), and fast computing times (<2 minutes for configuration).

To test the code, we would like to validate it using radiometrically-calibrated images/spatial data in the visible or near-infrared of aerosol layers, clouds, or plumes where the optical depth, size distribution, and composition are well-known through independent means. These can be the data on terrestrial aerosols or laboratory measurements of optically thick aerosol clouds that are accompanied by the data on their composition, optical depth (or number density), and size distribution.

We will highly appreciate it if you share with us such data or refer to publications and data archives where such data can be found. We are open to collaboration.

Please email to <pedro.hasselmann@inaf.it>

Pedro Henrique Aragao Hasselmann

Doutor em Astronomia

INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma

Via Frascati 33, Monte Porzio Catone, RM, Italia