Uncertainties associated with the surface texture of ice particles in satellite-based retrieval of cirrus clouds - Part I: Single-scattering properties of ice crystals with surface roughness

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1940-1947

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

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ice crystals; Light scattering; Ray tracing; Surface roughness

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; CALCULATIONS; CLOUDS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CRYSTALS; FRICTION; ICE; METAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; POWDERS; RAY TRACING; REFLECTION; SATELLITES; SCATTERING; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SOLIDS; STEEL ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE TREATMENT;

(1 1 0) SURFACE; APPROXIMATE ALGORITHMS; CIRRUS CLOUDS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFORTS; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; CRYSTAL SURFACES; GEOMETRIC OPTICS; HEXAGONAL ICE CRYSTALS; ICE CLOUDS; ICE CRYSTALS; ICE PARTICLES; MICROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; MORPHOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; OPTICAL (PET) (OPET); PARTICLE SURFACES; RAY TRACING; RETRIEVAL (MIR); RIGOROUS APPROACH; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SCATTERING CHARACTERISTICS; SINGLE-SCATTERING (SS); SIZE PARAMETERS; SURFACE TEXTURING;

SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 45849090382     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.916471     Document Type: Article

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