[The estimation of cirrus cloud particulate shape using combined simulation and a three-wavelength lidar measurement].
The global occurrence of cirrus clouds can reach as high as 30%, whose scattering properties are essential impact on the climatic model, radiative transfer, and remote sensing. Their scattering properties are determined by the ice crystal shape, size distribution, refractive index and so on. Retrieval of the backscattering color ratios of cirrus cloud using a 355, 532 and 1 064 nm three-wavelength lidar, combined with the simulation of the three backscattering color ratios of different ice crystal shape, the shape of the lidar-measured ice crystal can be estimated. The results indicate that the shape of cirrus cloud over Hefei city is mostly composed by aggregates.
Section of Physics T & R, Department of Basic Sciences, Army Officer Academy, Hefei 230031, China. zmtao@aiofm.ac.cn
Zong-Ming
ZM
Tao
Dong
D
Liu
He-Li
HL
Wei
Xiao-Min
XM
Ma
Bo
B
Shi
Miao
M
Nie
Jun
J
Zhou
Ying-Jian
YJ
Wang