Radar polarimetry of Saturn's rings: Modeling ring particles as fractal aggregates built of small ice monomers

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 110, Issue 14-16, 2009, Pages 1706-1712

  Mishchenko, Michael I ^a   Dlugach, Janna M ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF UKRAINE   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Coherent backscattering; Multiple scattering; Polarimetry; Radar; Radiative transfer; Remote sensing; Saturn's rings

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER-CLUSTER AGGREGATION; COHERENT BACKSCATTERING; FRACTAL AGGREGATE; FRACTAL PARAMETERS; GEOMETRICAL CONFIGURATIONS; GROUND BASED RADAR; MORPHOLOGICAL MODEL; PACKING DENSITY; POLARIMETRY; RADAR POLARIMETRY; SATURN'S RINGS; SINGLE SCATTERING; T-MATRIX; VECTOR RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

AGGREGATES; BACKSCATTERING; CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; ELLIPSOMETRY; FRACTAL DIMENSION; MONOMERS; MULTIPLE SCATTERING; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; RADAR; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REMOTE SENSING;

AGGLOMERATION;

BACKSCATTER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; MORPHOLOGY; PARTICLE MOTION; PARTICLE SIZE; POLARIZATION; RADAR; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SATURN; THEORETICAL STUDY; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 67649362463     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2009.01.017     Document Type: Article

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