Journal article
Simple relation between lidar multiple scattering and depolarization for water clouds
Optics letters, Vol.31(12), pp.1809-1811
2006
DOI: 10.1364/OL.31.001809
PMID: 16729078
Abstract
An empirical relationship is derived between the multiple-scattering fraction and the linear depolarization ratio by using Monte Carlo simulations of water clouds measured by backscatter lidar. This relationship is shown to hold for clouds having a wide range of extinction coefficients, mean droplet sizes, and droplet size distribution widths. The relationship is also shown to persist for various instrument fields of view and for measurements made within broken cloud fields. The results obtained from the Monte Carlo simulations are verified by using multiple-field-of-view lidar measurements. For space-based lidars equipped to measure linear depolarization ratios, this new relationship can be used to accurately assess signal perturbations due to multiple scattering within nonprecipitating water clouds. © 2006 Optical Society of America.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Simple relation between lidar multiple scattering and depolarization for water clouds
- Creators
- YONGXIANG HU - Langley Research CenterZHAOYAN Liu - Langley Research CenterDavid Winker - Langley Research CenterMark Vaughan - Langley Research CenterVincent Noel - Langley Research CenterLuc Bissonnette - Defence Research and Development CanadaGilles Roy - Defence Research and Development CanadaMatthew Mcgill - Goddard Space Flight Center
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Optics letters, Vol.31(12), pp.1809-1811
- Publisher
- Optical Society of America
- DOI
- 10.1364/OL.31.001809
- PMID
- 16729078
- ISSN
- 0146-9592
- eISSN
- 1539-4794
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2006
- Academic Unit
- Physics and Astronomy; Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
- Record Identifier
- 9984277263002771
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