Midlatitude cirrus cloud climatology from the Facility for Atmospheric Remote Sensing. IV. Optical displays

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 332-341

  Sassen, Kenneth ^a,b   Zhu, Jiang ^a   Benson, Sally ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; CRYSTALS; DIFFRACTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; PHOTOGRAPHY;

OPTICAL DISPLAYS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0037455440     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.000332     Document Type: Article

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