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Bréon & Goloub 1998

Bréon, F. and Goloub, P. (1998). Cloud droplet effective radius from spaceborne polarization measurements. Geophysical Research Letters 25: doi: 10.1029/98GL01221. issn: 0094-8276.

The spaceborne POLDER instrument provided the first quantitative measurements of the Earth reflectance polarization characteristics. Many POLDER images of polarized light show cloudbow type features over cloud fields for scattering angles between 150 and 170¿. This unexpected observation is attributed to the polarized radiance generated by single scattering by cloud droplets. It shows that, in many cases, the cloud droplet size distribution is very narrow. The multidirectional polarized radiance measurements can be inverted for an accurate estimate of the cloud droplet radius. ¿ 1998 American Geophysical Union

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Keywords
Oceanography, Biological and Chemical, Aerosols

Journal
Geophysical Research Letters
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