Irregularly shaped ice aggregates in optical modeling of convectively generated ice clouds

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 113, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 632-643

  Ishimoto, Hiroshi ^a   Masuda, Kazuhiko ^a   Mano, Yuzo ^a   Orikasa, Narihiro ^a   Uchiyama, Akihiro ^a  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cirrus; Irregularly shaped particles; Light scattering

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION PROCESS; ANGULAR DEPENDENCE; ASYMMETRY FACTOR; CIRRUS; CIRRUS PARTICLES; CLOUD REMOTE SENSING; COMPLEX STRUCTURE; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; DEPOLARIZATION RATIO; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) METHODS; FRACTAL-LIKE; GROUND BASED; ICE CLOUDS; ICE PARTICLES; IRREGULAR STRUCTURES; IRREGULARLY SHAPED PARTICLES; LINEAR POLARIZATION; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; OPTICAL MODELING; PHASE FUNCTIONS; SCATTERING PROPERTY; SINGLE SCATTERING; SIZE AND SHAPE; SIZE PARAMETERS; VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS; VORONOI;

AGGREGATES; BACKSCATTERING; CLOUDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; FORWARD SCATTERING; FRACTAL DIMENSION; ICE; LIGHT SCATTERING; REMOTE SENSING;

AGGLOMERATION;

AGGREGATE; BACKSCATTER; CIRRUS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL THEORY; REMOTE SENSING; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 84857757311     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2012.01.017     Document Type: Article

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