Abstract
In order to characterize optical properties of atmospheric aerosols in East Asia, the absorption coefficient (σap) and the scattering coefficient (σsp) were monitored at three islands (Fukue Island, Miyako Island and Amami-ohshima Island) in East China Sea from 2002 through 2004. The optical properties ?Dap and ?Dsp at these islands showed high values in winter to spring and low values in summer. The single scattering albedo at Fukue Island ranged from 0.7 to 0.9. Further, aerosol measurement campaigns were performed in springs among the period. During the campaign besides the measurement of optical parameters, aerosol particles were collected on filters to determine chemical component concentrations. Using the chemical concentrations, σap and σsp were calculated by Mie scattering theory for assumed mixing conditions and particle size distributions in aerosol model. The calculation use twenty kinds of particle size distributions and three mixing conditions as parameters. The best correlation with observed values were obtained in the geometric mean radius of 0.075?Em, the geometric standard deviation of 1.3 and external mixing condition.
