Classifying atmospheric ice crystals by spatial light scattering
Kaye, Paul H., Hirst, Edwin, Greenaway, Richard, Ulanowski, Zbigniew, Hesse, Evelyn, DeMott, P., Saunders, C. and Connolly, P.
(2008)
Classifying atmospheric ice crystals by spatial light scattering.
Optics Letters, 33 (13).
pp. 1545-1547.
ISSN 0146-9592
We describe preliminary results from an optical scattering instrument designed to assess the shapes and sizes of microscopic atmospheric cloud particles, especially the smallest ice crystals, that can profoundly affect cloud processes and radiative properties. The new instrument captures high-resolution spatial light scattering patterns from individual particles down to ~1 μm in size passing through a focused laser beam. Its significance lies in the ability of these patterns to provide morphological data for particle sizes well below the optical resolution limits of current cloud particle probes
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| Additional information | This paper was published in Optics Letters and is made available as an electronic reprint with the permission of OSA. The paper can be found at the following URL on the OSA website: http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/browse.cfm Copyright Optical Society of America |
| Keywords | cirrus clouds, diffraction, droplets |
| Date Deposited | 15 May 2025 12:10 |
| Last Modified | 30 May 2025 23:46 |
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