Light Scattering by Quasi-Spherical Ice Crystals
Light Scattering by Quasi-Spherical Ice Crystals
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准球形冰晶的光散射
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2004
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通讯作者:
G. McFarquhar
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T. Nousiainen;G. McFarquhar
Abstract The shapes and single-scattering properties of small, irregular, quasi-spherical ice crystals, with equivalent radii between approximately 8 and 90 μm and size parameters from about 90 to 1000, are studied using two-dimensional images measured by a cloud particle imager in midlatitude cirrus during the 2000 Cloud Intensive Operation Period conducted over the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement program's Southern Great Plains site. A statistical shape analysis of the ice crystal images is carried out to obtain size-dependent relative standard deviations of radius and correlation functions of logradius, which together define the shape statistics of the sample ice crystals. The former describes the overall variation in the lengths of radius vectors defining the particle surface from a given origin, whereas the latter describes correlations of lengths of radius vectors as functions of angular distance between them. The logradius is essentially the natural logarithm of radius. There is no strong depende...