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Microphysical properties of mixed‐phase & Ice clouds retrieved from In Situ airborne “polar nephelometer” measurements
Author(s) -
Oshchepkov Sergey,
Isaka Harumi,
Gayet JeanFrancois,
Sinyuk Alexander,
Auriol Frederique,
Havemann Stephan
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/1999gl010784
Subject(s) - nephelometer , ice crystals , polar , in situ , ice water , cloud physics , phase (matter) , remote sensing , scattering , mixed phase , environmental science , inversion (geology) , materials science , atmospheric sciences , meteorology , light scattering , optics , geology , physics , cloud computing , geomorphology , computer science , geotechnical engineering , quantum mechanics , astronomy , structural basin , operating system
In this paper we present microphysical properties of natural clouds retrieved from an airborne “Polar Nephelometer” measurements. The retrieval was done by means of an iterative inversion method, which is based on the bi‐component (water droplets and ice crystals) representation of ice and mixed phase cloud composition. The present study shows that experimental scattering phase functions of ice crystals are characterized by high information content with respect to the aspect ratio of ice crystals which can be estimated in addition to their effective size distributions.