ABSTRACT:In this work, we extracted data from Optical Properties of Aerosols and Clouds (OPAC) using FORTRAN program to model the effect of soot on optical depth, scattering coefficient, absorption coefficient, single scattering albedo, extinction coefficient and asymmetry parameter at spectral range of 0.25 to 1.00 m for eight different relative humidities (RHs) (0, 50, 70, 80, 90, 95, 98 and 99%). The concentration of sootwas varied as 1.10 × 10 , 1.20 × 10 and 1.30 × 10 while the insoluble and water soluble were kept constant at 1.50 and 15,000 cm -3 respectively. The optical parameters were used to determine the Radiative forcing (RF). Origin 50 software was used to plot the graphs. SPSS 16.0 Software was used to determine the Ångström exponent, and Curvature, 2. The reflects the dominance of fine-mode particles while 2 at 0% RH reflects the dominance of coarse-mode particles and at 50-99%RHs reflects the dominance of fine-mode particles, the turbidity, indicates a relatively hazy atmosphere, the Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) show a relatively higher value indicating a polluted urban air, the asymmetry parameter, g falls between 0.64 and 0.77. However, from our graphs of Radiative forcing against wavelength, we report that addition of soot concentration reflects warming effect; therefore soot has a relatively high absorption coefficient.
he average refractivity gradient and the average effective earth radius (k – factor) estimated for Accra during the period under investigation were found to be -44.1405 N-units/km and 1.39 respectively suggesting that the propagation in this geographical location is mostly super – refractive. The highest and lowest mean values of FSV were found during the dry and rainy seasons in the months of January and June with 3.0998 dB and 0.0158 dB respectively.
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