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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1999. IGARSS '99 Proceedings. IEEE 1999 International
Conference_Location :
Hamburg
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5207-6
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.1999.773429
