Rough Spheroid Modeling Database

Rough spheroid modeling tools were developed by:

• Oleg Dubovik, Laboratoire d’Optique Atmosphérique, CNRS/Université de Lille, France
• Tatyana Lapyonok, Laboratoire d’Optique Atmosphérique, CNRS/Université de Lille, France

For details see:

Dubovik, O., A. Sinyuk, T, Lapyonok, B. N. Holben, M. Mishchenko, P. Yang, T. F. Eck et al. (2006), Application of spheroid models to account for aerosol particle nonsphericity in remote sensing of desert dust. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 111, no. D11 (2006).

Modeling prepared and accomplished by:

• Ludmilla Kolokolova, Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
• Himadri Sekhar Das, Assam University, Silchar, India
• Quentin Ludet, University of Maryland, Intern

For test of the model and cometary dust modeling examples see:

Kolokolova, L., Das, H. S., Dubovik, O., Lapyonok, T., & Yang, P. (2015). Polarization of cosmic dust simulated with the rough spheroid model. Planetary and Space Science, 116, 30-38.

Ivanova, O., Luk’yanyk, I., Kolokolova, L., Das, H.S., Husárik, M., Rosenbush, V., Afanasiev, V., Svoreň, J., Kiselev, N. and Krushinsky, V. (2019), Photometry, spectroscopy, and polarimetry of distant comet C/2014 A4 (SONEAR). Astronomy & Astrophysics, 626, p.A26.

Ivanova, O., V. Rosenbush, I. Luk'yanyk, L. Kolokolova, V. Kleshchonok, N. Kiselev, V. Afanasiev, R. Z. Kirk (2021) Observations of distant comet C/2011 KP36 (Spacewatch): photometry, spectroscopy, and polarimetry, Astronomy and Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202039668.

Database Manager and Website Developer:

• Mark Van Selous