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Estimate Of The Incoherent-Scattering Contribution To Lidar Backscatter From Clouds

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dc.contributorVirginia Techen
dc.contributor.authorde Wolf, D. A.en
dc.contributor.authorRusschenberg, H. W. J.en
dc.contributor.authorLighthart, L. P.en
dc.contributor.departmentElectrical and Computer Engineeringen
dc.contributor.departmentCenter for Stochastic Processes in Science and Engineering (CSPISE)en
dc.date.accessed2014-02-24en
dc.date.accessioned2014-04-04T15:12:15Zen
dc.date.available2014-04-04T15:12:15Zen
dc.date.issued1999-09-01en
dc.description.abstractLidar backscatter from clouds in the Delft University of Technology experiment is complicated by the fact that the transmitter has a narrow beam width, whereas the receiver has a much wider one. The issue here is whether reception of light scattered incoherently by cloud particles can contribute appreciably to the received power. The incoherent contribution can come from within as well as from outside the transmitter beam but in any case is due to at least two scattering processes in the cloud that are not included in the coherent forward scatter that leads to the usual exponentially attenuated contribution from single-particle backscatter. It is conceivable that a sizable fraction of the total received power within the receiver beam width is due to such incoherent-scattering processes. The ratio of this contribution to the direct (but attenuated) reflection from a single particle is estimated here by means of a distorted-Born approximation to the wave equation (with an incident cw monochromatic wave) and by comparison of the magnitude of the doubly scattered to that of the singly scattered flux. The same expressions are also obtained from a radiative-transfer formalism. The ratio underestimates incoherent multiple scattering when it is not small. Corrections that are due to changes in polarization are noted. (C) 1999 Optical Society of America.en
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dc.identifier.citationDavid A. de Wolf, Herman W. J. Russchenberg, and Leo P. Ligthart, "Estimate of the Incoherent-Scattering Contribution to Lidar Backscatter from Clouds," Appl. Opt. 38, 585-593 (1999). doi: 10.1364/ao.38.000585en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1364/ao.38.000585en
dc.identifier.issn1559-128Xen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/46895en
dc.identifier.urlhttp://www.opticsinfobase.org/ao/abstract.cfm?URI=ao-38-3-585en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherOptical Society of Americaen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectMonte-carlo calculationsen
dc.subjectMultiple scatteringen
dc.subjectReturnsen
dc.titleEstimate Of The Incoherent-Scattering Contribution To Lidar Backscatter From Cloudsen
dc.title.serialApplied Opticsen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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