Simulation of the optical properties of plate aggregates for application to the remote sensing of cirrus clouds

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1065-1081

  Xie, Yu ^a   Yang, Ping ^a   Kattawar, George W ^a   Baum, Bryan A ^b   Hu, Yongxiang ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; GEOMETRY; ICE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING;

AGGREGATE PROPERTIES; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; DEEP TROPICAL CONVECTION; DISCRETE DIPOLE APPROXIMATION; EFFECTIVE PARTICLE SIZE; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; SHORT WAVE INFRARED;

AGGREGATES;

EID: 79952562260     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.001065     Document Type: Article

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