A Comparative Study of the Optical Properties of Hexahedral Aerosol Particles with Spherical and Spheroidal Aerosols as Simulated by the Generalized Retrieval of Aerosol and Surface Properties (GRASP) Model.

Greema Regmi1, Reed Espinosa2, Anin Puthukkudy3,4, Jose Vanderlei Martins3,5, Osku Kemppinen2,6, Masanori Saito7 and Oleg Dubovik8, (1)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Physics, Earth and Space Institute, GESTAR-II, Baltimore, United States, (4)Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research II, UMBC, Physics, Baltimore, United States, (5)Earth and Space Institute, UMBC, Baltimore, United States, (6)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), University of Maryland, College Park, United States, (7)Texas A&M University, College Station, United States, (8)Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique, CNRS/University of Lille, LIlle, France