Scattering database in the millimeter and submillimeter wave range of 100-1000 GHz for nonspherical ice particles

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Hong, Gang ^a   Yang, Ping ^a   Baum, Bryan A ^b   Heymsfield, Andrew J ^c   Weng, Fuzhong ^d   Liu, Quanhua ^d,e   Heygster, Georg ^f   Buehler, Stefan A ^g  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^e QSS GROUP INC   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^g LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CLOUDS; ICE; INFERENCE ENGINES; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL SENSORS; PARTICLE SIZE; RANGE FINDING; SATELLITES; SCATTERING; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ABSORPTION EFFICIENCY; ASYMMETRY FACTOR; BULK SCATTERING; DISCRETE DIPOLE APPROXIMATION METHOD; ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRA; EXTINCTION EFFICIENCY; FIELD CAMPAIGN; HEXAGONAL PLATES; HOLLOW COLUMNS; ICE CLOUD PROPERTIES; ICE CLOUDS; ICE PARTICLES; MICROPHYSICAL PROPERTY; MULTIPLE PLATFORMS; MULTIPLE SATELLITES; NON-SPHERICAL; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SATELLITE SENSORS; SCATTERING PHASE MATRIX; SINGLE SCATTERING; SINGLE-SCATTERING ALBEDO; SPACE-BORNE SENSOR;

AGGLOMERATION;

ALGORITHM; DATABASE; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ICE CRYSTAL; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSOR;

EID: 66449105831     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JD010451     Document Type: Article

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