A review of the light scattering properties of cirrus

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 110, Issue 14-16, 2009, Pages 1239-1260

  Baran, Anthony J ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cirrus; Climate modeling; Ice crystal; Polarization; Radiative transfer; Remote sensing; Scattering; Single scattering properties

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE RADIATION; CIRRUS; CLIMATE CHANGE PREDICTION; CLIMATE MODELING; COLD TEMPERATURES; CURRENT MEASUREMENTS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GEOMETRICAL FORMS; HEXAGONAL ICE; ICE CRYSTAL; ICE CRYSTAL CLOUDS; ICE CRYSTAL SIZE; ICE CRYSTALS; ICE PARTICLES; LIGHT SCATTERING MODEL; NATURALLY OCCURRING; NON-SPHERICAL; SCATTERING PROPERTY; SINGLE SCATTERING; SINGLE-SCATTERING PROPERTIES; SPACE-BASED; SYMMETRIC COMPONENTS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; CRYSTALS; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; LIGHT SCATTERING; POLARIZATION; PROJECTILES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REFRACTION; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTERING; SPACE OPTICS;

ICE;

CIRRUS; CLIMATE MODELING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ICE CRYSTAL; LIGHT SCATTERING; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; POLARIZATION; RADIATION BALANCE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 67649528692     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2009.02.026     Document Type: Review

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