Lidar ratio and depolarization ratio for cirrus clouds

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 30, 2002, Pages 6470-6476

  Chen, Wei Nai ^a   Chiang, Chih Wei ^a   Nee, Jan Bai ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY; CLOUDS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ICE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; TROPOSPHERE;

OPTICAL DEPTHS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0037145475     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.006470     Document Type: Article

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