Remote sensing of ice crystal asymmetry parameter using multi-directional polarization measurements-Part 1: Methodology and evaluation with simulated measurements

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2361-2374

  Van Diedenhoven, B ^a,b   Cairns, B ^b   Geogdzhayev, I V ^b,c   Fridlind, A M ^b   Ackerman, A S ^b   Yang, P ^d   Baum, B A ^e  

^a NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

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

^c Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics ^*  (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION; CLOUD; ICE CRYSTAL; MEASUREMENT METHOD; POLARIZATION; REFLECTANCE; REMOTE SENSING; SAMPLING; SCATTERING; SIMULATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 84867973770     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-5-2361-2012     Document Type: Article

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