Backscattered intensity from model atmospheric ice crystals in the millimeter-wave range

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 30, 2001, Pages 5337-5342

  Saija, Rosalba ^a,b   Iatì, Maria A ^a,b   Denti, Paolo ^a,b   Borghese, Ferdinando ^a,b   Sindoni, Orazio I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b INFM   (Italy)

^c EDGEWOOD CHEMICAL BIOLOGICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; ICE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MILLIMETER WAVES; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

ATMOSPHERIC ICE CRYSTALS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING;

EID: 0038373157     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.005337     Document Type: Article

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