Use of circular cylinders as surrogates for hexagonal pristine ice crystals in scattering calculations at infrared wavelengths

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 2653-2664

  Lee, Yong Keun ^a   Yang, Ping ^a   Mishchenko, Michael I ^b   Baum, Bryan A ^c   Hu, Yong X ^c   Huang, Hung Lung ^d   Wiscombe, Warren J ^e   Baran, Anthony J ^f  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; ICE; LIGHT SCATTERING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

PHASE FUNCTION;

CYLINDERS (SHAPES);

EID: 0041882210     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.002653     Document Type: Article

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