Effects of ice particle shape and orientation on polarized microwave radiation for off-nadir problems

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1669-1672

  Czekala, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; ASPECT RATIO; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ICE; ICE PROBLEMS; POLARIZATION; RADIATION EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; MICROWAVES; TROPOSPHERE;

HEXAGONAL PARTICLES; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDINGS; NONSPHERICAL SHAPES; POLARIZATION DIFFERENCE; POLARIZATION STATE; PREFERRED ORIENTATIONS; PROPAGATION DIRECTION; STATE OF POLARIZATION;

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION;

MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDING; OBLATE SPHEROIDS; PROLATE SPHEROIDS;

ICE CRYSTAL; MICROWAVE RADIATION; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032523625     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL51132     Document Type: Article

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