Light tunneling in clouds

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1588-1593

  Nussenzveig, H Moyses ^a,b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; METEOROLOGY; QUANTUM THEORY; RESONANCE; SURFACE WAVES;

LIGHT TUNNELING;

WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0042884150     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.001588     Document Type: Article

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