Microwave radiative transfer with nonspherical particles

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3220, Issue , 1997, Pages 174-185

  Czekala, Harald ^a   Simmer, Clemens ^a   Rother, Tom ^b   Schmidt, Karsten ^b   Havemann, Stephan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Light scattering; Nonspherical particles; Radiative transfer

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLOUDS; DROPS; GEOPHYSICS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MICROWAVES; POLARIZATION; RADIATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REFRACTION; REMOTE SENSING; SPHERES;

AZIMUTHAL SYMMETRIES; CROSS POLARIZATIONS; MICROWAVE RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELS; MICROWAVE REGIONS; NONSPHERICAL PARTICLES; POLARIZATION DIFFERENCES; RAIN RATES; RAYLEIGH APPROXIMATIONS; SCATTERING METHODS; SCATTERING PROPERTIES; SIZE DEPENDENTS; SIZE PARAMETERS; SPHERICAL GEOMETRIES; STOKES COMPONENTS; STOKES VECTORS; VIEWING ANGLES;

SCATTERING;

EID: 57649201642     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.301148     Document Type: Conference Paper

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