Abstract
Cirrus clouds play an important role in atmospheric radiation. Cirrus clouds are mainly composed of tiny ice crystals. Due to the development of industrialization, the ice crystal particles in cirrus may contain some pollutants. Therefore, it is of great significance to study the scattering properties of nucleated ice crystal particles. The research method of this paper is to use Python to write a model file of nucleated long hexagonal prism and flat regular hexagonal ice crystal particles. DDSCAT, an open source software package developed based on DDA, was used to read the model file and calculate the variation of extinction, scattering and absorption efficiency factors with wavelength and effective radius of the two models illuminated by a plane wave. The results show that Qext, Qabs and Qsca are sensitive to the number of ammonium sulfate nuclei and the shape of ice crystals. The results of this paper are expected to provide theoretical support for the study of cirrus scattering characteristics.
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