Light backscattering by hexagonal ice crystal particles in the geometrical optics approximation

Optical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1-10

  Borovoi, Anatoli G ^a   Kustova, Natalia V ^a   Oppel, Ulrich G ^b  

^a V E ZUEV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS   (Russian Federation)

^b Institute of Mathematics National Academy of Sciences of Armenia   (Armenia)

Author keywords

Ice crystals; Lidars; Polarization; Scattering

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BACKSCATTERING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL RADAR; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RAY TRACING; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

GEOMETRIC OPTICS SCATTERING MATRIX (GOSM); HEXAGONAL ICE CRYSTAL PARTICLES; ICE CRYSTALS; LIGHT BACKSCATTERING; LINEAR POLARIZATION; RAY TRAJECTORIES;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 27144456177     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1955367     Document Type: Article

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