Light scattering by single ice crystals of cirrus clouds

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 15, 2006, Pages

  Shcherbakov, Valery ^a,b   Gayet, Jean François ^b   Jourdan, Olivier ^b   Ström, Johan ^c   Minikin, Andreas ^d  

^a B I STEPANOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Belarus)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; ICE; LIGHT SCATTERING; RAY TRACING; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

ANGULAR SCATTERING INTENSITIES (ASI); CIRRUS CLOUDS; ICE CRYSTALS;

CLOUDS;

AIR BUBBLE; CIRRUS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ICE CRYSTAL; LIGHT SCATTERING; REFRACTION; WEIBULL THEORY;

EID: 33845627659     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026055     Document Type: Article

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