In situ measurements of the scattering phase function of stratocumulus, contrails and cirrus

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 971-974

  Gayet, Jean François ^a   Auriol, Frédérique ^a   Oshchepkov, Sergey ^b   Schröder, Franz ^c   Duroure, Christophe ^a   Febvre, Guy ^a   Foumol, Jean François ^a   Crépel, Olivier ^a   Personne, Pascal ^a   Daugereon, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^b B I STEPANOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Belarus)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; NEPHELOMETERS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); REMOTE SENSING; WEATHER SATELLITES; PROBES; SOLAR ABSORBERS;

CIRRUS CLOUDS; CONTRAILS CLOUDS; POLAR NEPHELOMETER; SCATTERING PHASE FUNCTION; STRATOCUMULUS CLOUDS; AIRBORNE INSTRUMENTS; AIRBORNE MEASUREMENTS; AIRBORNE PROBES; CLOUD REMOTE SENSING; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; POLAR NEPHELOMETERS; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS;

METEOROLOGY; CLOUDS;

AIRBORNE PROBE; CIRRUS; CONTRAIL; SCATTERING; STRATOCUMULUS;

EID: 15644375299     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00541     Document Type: Article

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