Citation: | Wong, C.-F., Chow, K.-C., Chan, K. L., Xiao, J. and Wang, Y. (2021). Some features of effective radius and variance of dust particles in numerical simulations of the dust climate on Mars. Earth Planet. Phys., 5(1), 11–18. doi: 10.26464/epp2021005 |
Airborne dust is an important constituent in the Martian atmosphere because of its radiative interaction with the atmospheric circulation. Dust size is one crucial factor in determining this effect. In reality dust sizes are varied; however, in numerical modeling of dust processes, dust size has usually been described by choice of a particular size distribution function, or by use of fixed values of effective radius (ER) and effective variance (EV). In this work, we present analytical expressions that have been derived to specify ER and EV for