Uncertainties associated with the surface texture of ice particles in satellite-based retrieval of cirrus clouds: Part II - Effect of particle surface roughness on retrieved cloud optical thickness and effective particle size

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1948-1957

  Yang, Ping ^a   Hong, Gang ^a   Kattawar, George W ^a   Minnis, Patrick ^b   Hu, Yongxiang ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Effective particle size; Ice crystals; Optical depth; Remote sensing; Scattering; Surface roughness

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; CLOUDS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CRYSTALS; DIFFRACTION; DIMENSIONAL STABILITY; FISH; FRICTION; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; ICE; LIGHT; METAL ANALYSIS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; POWDERS; RAY TRACING; RHENIUM; SCATTERING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOLIDS; STEEL ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE TREATMENT; THEOREM PROVING;

(1 1 0) SURFACE; (I ,J) CONDITIONS; CIRRUS CLOUDS; CLOUD OPTICAL THICKNESS (COT); DIFFRACTION CONTRIBUTION; GEOMETRIC OPTICS; HEXAGONAL COLUMNS; ICE CLOUDS; ICE CRYSTALS; ICE PARTICLES; INDIVIDUAL (PSS 544-7); LOOK UP TABLE (LUT); MAXIMUM DIMENSIONS; NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS; PARTICLE RADIUS; PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION (PSZ); PARTICLE SURFACES; RAY-TRACING TECHNIQUE; RETRIEVAL (MIR); ROUGH SURFACES; SCATTERING PROPERTIES; SINGLE-SCATTERING (SS); SMALL ROUGHNESS; SMOOTH SURFACES; SURFACE TEXTURING;

SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 45849090381     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.916472     Document Type: Article

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