Advanced Techniques
Desert Dust Orientation
As discussed in Bailey et al. (2008) and Ulanowski et al. (2007a), in case of aligned particles in the atmosphere, DOLP is expected to increase over larger solar zenith angles (SZA) since the direct sunlight travels through a larger airmass, and the effect of the dichroic extinction increases. With the increase of the SZA, the particle alignment angle changes with respect to the direction of observation, which is expected to influence the dichroic extinction and the measured linear polarization.
Polarimetric Signatures of Biological Materials
of scattered light from biological materials and cyanobacteria, to demonstrate the detection capabilities of potential life presence on exoplanetary atmospheres.