Abstract: This paper presents a study of the orientation of ice crystals in cirrus and midlevel clouds, based on the analysis of several cases of scanning polarization lidar observations. The maximum angle that crystals deviate from ...

Abstract: The goal of this paper is to retrieve information about ice particle orientation in cirrus clouds. This is achieved by comparing simulations of sunlight reflection on a cirrus cloud with measurements of polarized radiances ...

Abstract: This paper presents a study of ice crystal shapes in midlatitude ice clouds inferred from a technique based on the comparison of ray-tracing simulations with lidar depolarization ratio measured at 532 nm. This technique ...

Abstract: paceborne lidar observations from Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) provide the first-ever observations of cloud vertical structure and phase over the entire Greenland icesheet. ...