Use of polarimetric lidar for the study of oriented ice plates in clouds
College
College of Science
Department/Unit
Physics
Document Type
Article
Source Title
Applied Optics
Volume
45
Issue
20
First Page
4878
Last Page
4887
Abstract
A polarization lidar operating at 532 nm was converted into an automatic, polarimetric lidar capable of measuring the entire Stokes vector of backscattered light and its derived quantities. Among these quantities, circular and linear depolarizations were studied as tools for investigating the presence of anisotropic scattering media. Isotropic scatterers show a simple relationship between linear and circular depolarization, a relation that we confirm theoretically and experimentally. Deviations from this relation, which are possible in the presence of anisotropic scatterers such as horizontally oriented ice plates when they are observed with a slant lidar, were studied both numerically and experimentally. © 2006 Optical Society of America.
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Digitial Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1364/AO.45.004878
Recommended Citation
Del Guasta, M., Vallar, E. C., Riviere, O., Castagnoli, F., Venturi, V., & Morandi, M. (2021). Use of polarimetric lidar for the study of oriented ice plates in clouds. Applied Optics, 45 (20), 4878-4887. https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.45.004878
Disciplines
Physics
Keywords
Clouds--Measurement; Optical radar
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