Quantitative measurement of the microphysical and optical properties of cirrus clouds with four different in situ probes: Evidence of small ice crystals

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 24, 2002, Pages

  Gayet, Jean François ^a   Auriol, Frédérique ^a   Minikin, Andreas ^b   Ström, Johan ^c   Seifert, Marco ^c   Krejci, Radovan ^c   Petzold, Andreas ^b   Febvre, Guy ^a   Schumann, Ulrich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PROBES;

CIRRUS CLOUDS; ICE CRYSTALS; MICROPHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OPTICAL MEASUREMENT; POLAR NEPHELOMETERS; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; VIRTUAL IMPACTORS;

CLOUDS;

EID: 0038742890     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL014342     Document Type: Article

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