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On a technique for determining the predominant orientation of crystal particles in clouds by virtue of polarization measurements in the MM-wave band

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We propose a technique for analyzing polarization characteristics of microwave radiation scattered by cloud particles with different distributions over sizes, shape, and spatial orientation. We have found a combination of Stokes parameters that is weakly sensitive to the distribution of the scattering particles over sizes and eccentricities but very sensitive to their distribution over spatial orientation.

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  1. O. S. Mocheneva
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Institute, of Applied Physics, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 42, No. 9, pp. 839–844, August 1999.

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Mocheneva, O.S., Tokman, M.D. On a technique for determining the predominant orientation of crystal particles in clouds by virtue of polarization measurements in the MM-wave band. Radiophys Quantum Electron 42, 737–741 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02676859

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