DocumentCode
340009
Title
A new method to estimate liquid water content, effective extinction efficiency, and effective radius for clouds and fog
Author
Fuhrhop, Rolf ; Macke, Andreas
Author_Institution
Appl. Meteorol. & Remote Sensing, Inst. for Marine Sci., Kiel, Germany
Volume
1
fYear
1999
fDate
1999
Firstpage
146
Abstract
This study demonstrates the potential use of scattering and polarization measurements to infer liquid water content, effective extinction efficiency, and effective radius of clouds and fog without explicitely measuring the drop size distribution
Keywords
atmospheric optics; atmospheric radiation; atmospheric techniques; clouds; drops; fog; light polarisation; light scattering; clouds; effective extinction efficiency; effective radius; fog; liquid water content; polarization; scattering; Clouds; Extinction coefficients; Meteorology; Mie scattering; Particle scattering; Polarization; Principal component analysis; Remote sensing; Size measurement; Water;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1999. IGARSS '99 Proceedings. IEEE 1999 International
Conference_Location
Hamburg
Print_ISBN
0-7803-5207-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IGARSS.1999.773429
Filename
773429
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