Laboratory for Aerosol Science, Spectroscopy, and Optics

The following publications exemplify the abilities of LASSO research, instrumentation, team members, and affiliated researchers:

Samburova, V., Connolly, J., Gyawali, M., Yatavelli, R.L., Watts, A.C., Chakrabarty, R.K., Zielinska, B., Moosmüller, H. and Khlystov, A., 2016. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in biomass-burning emissions and their contribution to light absorption and aerosol toxicity. Science of The Total Environment, 568, pp.391-401.

Tian, J., Chow, J.C., Cao, J., Han, Y., Ni, H., Chen, L.W.A., Wang, X., Huang, R., Moosmüller, H. and Watson, J.G., 2015. A Biomass Combustion Chamber: Design, Evaluation, and a Case Study of Wheat Straw Combustion Emission Tests.Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 15(5), pp.2104-2114.

Chakrabarty, R.K., Beres, N.D., Moosmüller, H., China, S., Mazzoleni, C., Dubey, M.K., Liu, L. and Mishchenko, M.I., 2014. Soot superaggregates from flaming wildfires and their direct radiative forcing. Scientific reports, 4.

Arnold, I.J., Moosmüller, H., Sharma, N. and Mazzoleni, C., 2014. Beam characteristics of fiber-based supercontinuum light sources with mirror-and lens-based beam collimators. Optics express, 22(11), pp.13860-13869.

Chakrabarty, R.K., Arnold, I.J., Francisco, D.M., Hatchett, B., Hosseinpour, F., Loria, M., Pokharel, A. and Woody, B.M., 2013. Black and brown carbon fractal aggregates from combustion of two fuels widely used in Asian rituals. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 122, pp.25-30.

Chakrabarty, R.K., Garro, M.A., Wilcox, E.M. and Moosmüller, H., 2012. Strong radiative heating due to wintertime black carbon aerosols in the Brahmaputra River Valley. Geophysical Research Letters, 39(9).

Gyawali, M., Arnott, W.P., Zaveri, R.A., Song, C., Moosmüller, H., Liu, L., Mishchenko, M.I., Chen, L.W., Green, M.C., Watson, J.G. and Chow, J.C., 2012. Photoacoustic optical properties at UV, VIS, and near IR wavelengths for laboratory generated and winter time ambient urban aerosols. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 12(5), pp.2587-2601.

Moosmüller, H., Chakrabarty, R.K., Ehlers, K.M. and Arnott, W.P., 2011. Absorption Ångström coefficient, brown carbon, and aerosols: basic concepts, bulk matter, and spherical particles. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 11(3), pp.1217-1225.

Moosmüller, H., Chakrabarty, R.K. and Arnott, W.P., 2009. Aerosol light absorption and its measurement: A review.Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 110(11), pp.844-878.

Chakrabarty, R.K., Moosmüller, H., Chen, L.W., Lewis, K., Arnott, W.P., Mazzoleni, C., Dubey, M.K., Wold, C.E., Hao, W.M. and Kreidenweis, S.M., 2010. Brown carbon in tar balls from smoldering biomass combustion. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 10(13), pp.6363-6370.

Hints For Usage

The compiled version of the program presently runs a single fractal. A subroutine analysis can be compiled and run with “File” > “Run Subroutine” that allows for the processing of many fractal aggregates.

If you have difficulty viewing the micrograph of a fractal, attempt to expand the micrograph window to fullscreen. Also, be aware that minor graphical bugs exist.

Hints For Compiling

This version of FracMAP with a graphical user interface was developed using Microsoft Visual C++.  A subfolder called /unixfractal contains files sufficient for developing your own unix command-line application.

To compile, you must have downloaded, installed, and compiled wxWidgets.

Under Project > Properties for the solutions:

• Configuration Properties > C/C++ > General > Additional Include Directories should reflect something similar to the following (relative to your own wxWidgets installation):
  C:\wxWidgets\lib\vc_lib\mswd;C:\wxWidgets\include;.;.\unix_fractal;C:\wxWidgets\samples;%(AdditionalIncludeDirectories)
• Configuration Properties > C/C++ > Preprocessor > Preprocessor Definitions
  For release: WIN32;__WXMSW__;_WINDOWS;NOPCH;%(PreprocessorDefinitions)
  For debug: WIN32;_DEBUG;__WXMSW__;__WXDEBUG__;_WINDOWS;NOPCH;%(PreprocessorDefinitions)
• Configuration Properties > Linker > General > Additional Library Directories
  This should be changed to reflect your wxWidgets installation: C:\wxWidgets\lib\vc_lib;%(AdditionalLibraryDirectories)
• Configuration Properties > Linker > Input > Additional Dependencies
  This should be changed to reflect the proper version for your wxWidgets installation: wxmsw28d_gl.lib;opengl32.lib;glu32.lib;wxmsw28d_core.lib;wxbase28d.lib;wxtiffd.lib;wxjpegd.lib;
  wxpngd.lib;wxzlibd.lib;wxregexd.lib;wxexpatd.lib;winmm.lib;comctl32.lib;rpcrt4.lib;
  wsock32.lib;odbc32.lib;%(AdditionalDependencies)

If you have any questions, please contact Mark Garro.