Observations of specular reflective particles and layers in crystal clouds.

In the present article, results of observations of high crystal clouds with high spatial and temporal resolution using the ground-based polarization LOSA-S lidar are described. Cases of occurrence of specularly reflective layers formed by particles oriented predominantly in the horizontal plane are demonstrated. Results of measuring echo-signal depolarization are compared for linear and circular polarization states of the initial laser beam.

• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Optics Express

• Publication date

  2011-03-28

• Fields of study

  Materials Science, Physics, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1364/OE.19.006209PMID 21451646
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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