Scattering phase functions of horizontally oriented hexagonal ice crystals

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 100, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 91-102

  Chen, Guang ^a   Yang, Ping ^a   Kattawar, George W ^a   Mishchenko, Michael I ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Cylinder; FDTD; Hexagon; Horizontal orientation; Phase matrix; T matrix

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; ICE; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN (FDTD); HORIZONTAL ORIENTATION; ICE CRYSTALS; PHASE MATRIX; T-MATRIX;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 33645037666     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2005.11.029     Document Type: Article

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