Backscattering Mueller matrix for quasi-horizontally oriented ice plates of cirrus clouds: application to CALIPSO signals

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 27, 2012, Pages 28222-28233

  Borovoi, Anatoli ^a   Konoshonkin, Alexander ^a   Kustova, Natalia ^a   Okamoto, Hajime ^b  

^a V E ZUEV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS   (Russian Federation)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; CLOUDS; OPTICAL RADAR; PHYSICAL OPTICS;

CALIPSO LIDARS; CIRRUS CLOUDS; CORNER REFLECTION; HEXAGONAL ICE CRYSTAL; MUELLER MATRIX; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; PHYSICAL OPTICS APPROXIMATION; TWO WAVELENGTH;

MATRIX ALGEBRA;

ICE;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; TELECOMMUNICATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ATMOSPHERE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ICE; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTOMETRY; RADAR; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84872051840     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.028222     Document Type: Article

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