Scattering properties of needlelike and platelike ice spheroids with moderate size parameters

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 27, 2000, Pages 5052-5057

  Zakharova, Nadia T ^a   Mishchenko, Michael I ^b  

^a SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; ICE; OPTICAL DEVICES; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; REMOTE SENSING;

ICE SPHEROIDS;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 0000517924     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.005052     Document Type: Article

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