Coupling of the microphysical and optical properties of an Arctic nimbostratus cloud during the ASTAR 2004 experiment: Implications for light-scattering modeling

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 23, 2010, Pages

  Jourdan, Olivier ^a   Mioche, Guillaume ^a   Garrett, Timothy J ^b   Schwarzenböck, Alfons ^a   Vidot, Jérôme ^a   Xie, Yu ^c   Shcherbakov, Valery ^a   Yang, Ping ^c   Gayet, Jean François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; CRYSTALS; DROP FORMATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIQUIDS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROBES; SCATTERING;

AIRBORNE MEASUREMENTS; CLOUD PARTICLES; EFFECTIVE SIZE; FREE PARAMETERS; ICE CRYSTAL SHAPES; ICE CRYSTALS; ICE PARTICLES; IN-SITU INSTRUMENTS; IRREGULAR SHAPE; LIQUID WATER; MICROPHYSICAL MODELS; MICROPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; MICROPHYSICAL PROPERTY; NUMBER CONCENTRATION; OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; OPTICAL FEATURES; OPTICAL PATTERNS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PARTICLE GEOMETRIES; PARTICLE MORPHOLOGIES; POLAR NEPHELOMETERS; SCATTERING PHASE FUNCTION; SHAPE PROPERTY; SINGLE SCATTERING; SMALL PARTICLES; SPITSBERGEN; STELLARS; SUPERCOOLED WATER; TOTAL SCATTERING; TROPOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

ICE;

AEROSOL; AIR TEMPERATURE; AIRBORNE SURVEY; AIRCRAFT; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; ICE CRYSTAL; LIGHT SCATTERING; PARTICLE SIZE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROBE; TROPOSPHERE;

ARCTIC; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 78649985516     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD014016     Document Type: Article

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