Light scattering by ice crystals of cirrus clouds: From exact numerical methods to physical-optics approximation

Author(s):  
Alexander Konoshonkin ◽  
Anatoli Borovoi ◽  
Natalia Kustova ◽  
Hajime Okamoto ◽  
Hiroshi Ishimoto ◽  
...  
2020 ◽  
Vol 237 ◽  
pp. 08011
Author(s):  
Alexander Konoshonkin ◽  
Anatoli Borovoi ◽  
Natalia Kustova ◽  
Zhenzhu Wang ◽  
Dong Liu ◽  
...  

Lidar technologies are widely used for retrieving microphysics of cirrus clouds, i.e. sizes, shapes and spatial orientation of ice crystals constituting the clouds. Interpretation of the lidar signals are based on the backscattered light. However, properties of the light backscattered by the ice crystals have not been well known and understood yet. The reason of this is that the problem of light scattering by the ice crystals much larger that incident wavelengths has not been solved satisfactorily yet because of great demands to computer resources. In this contribution we review the physical optics approximation as a prospective method to solve the light scattering problem on large nonspherical particles in lidar application.


2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander V. Konoshonkin ◽  
Natalia V. Kustova ◽  
Anatoli G. Borovoi ◽  
H. Okamoto ◽  
K. Sato ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 176 ◽  
pp. 08002
Author(s):  
Anatoli Borovoi ◽  
Jens Reichardt ◽  
Ulrich Görsdorf ◽  
Veronika Wolf ◽  
Alexander Konoshonkin ◽  
...  

To develop a microphysical model of cirrus clouds, data obtained by Raman lidar RAMSES and a tilted ceilometer are studied synergistically. The measurements are interpreted by use of a data archive containing the backscattering matrixes as well as the depolarization, color and lidar ratios of ice crystals of different shapes, sizes and spatial orientations calculated within the physical-optics approximation.


Author(s):  
Alexander V. Konoshonkin ◽  
Natalia V. Kustova ◽  
Anatoli G. Borovoi ◽  
Yevgen Grynko ◽  
Jens Förstner

2006 ◽  
Vol 33 (15) ◽  
Author(s):  
Valery Shcherbakov ◽  
Jean-François Gayet ◽  
Olivier Jourdan ◽  
Johan Ström ◽  
Andreas Minikin

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anatoli G. Borovoi ◽  
Igor A. Grishin ◽  
Ulrich G. Oppel

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