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During a field campaign in 1991, the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Scanning Raman Lidar measured, in the water vapor channel, Raman scattering from a low-level cloud in excess of saturation. The excess scattering has been interpreted to be spontaneous Raman scattering by liquid water in the cloud droplets. A review of theoretical and laboratory studies indicate that the technique may provide a remote method to observe cloud liquid water.
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Melfi, S.H., Li, J., Evans, K.D., Ferrare, R.A., Whiteman, D.N., Schwemmer, G. (1997). Observation of Anomalous Raman Scattering Associated with Clouds. In: Ansmann, A., Neuber, R., Rairoux, P., Wandinger, U. (eds) Advances in Atmospheric Remote Sensing with Lidar. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60612-0_24
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