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Remote monitoring of cloud droplet sizes by a multiple-field-of-view lidar

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Distributions of the lidar-signal intensity with the scattering volume image spot are analyzed. The contributions by the single- and double-scattering components to the lidar return, as well as the effective droplet size in clouds are estimated. It is shown that in the case of multiple scattering, the lidar return intensity distributions can be described by a sum of the Gaussian components corresponding to single and multiple scattering.

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  1. Institute of Monitoring of Climatic and Ecological Systems, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk, Russia

    A. I. Abramochkin & A. A. Tikhomirov

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Original Russian Text © A.I. Abramochkin, A.A. Tikhomirov, 2009, published in Optika Atmosfery i Okeana.

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Abramochkin, A.I., Tikhomirov, A.A. Remote monitoring of cloud droplet sizes by a multiple-field-of-view lidar. Atmos Ocean Opt 22, 57–62 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1024856009010096

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