Classifying atmospheric ice crystals by spatial light scattering

Kaye, Paul H., Hirst, Edwin, Greenaway, Richard, Ulanowski, Zbigniew, Hesse, Evelyn, DeMott, P., Saunders, C. and Connolly, P. (2008) Classifying atmospheric ice crystals by spatial light scattering. Optics Letters, 33 (13). pp. 1545-1547. ISSN 0146-9592
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We describe preliminary results from an optical scattering instrument designed to assess the shapes and sizes of microscopic atmospheric cloud particles, especially the smallest ice crystals, that can profoundly affect cloud processes and radiative properties. The new instrument captures high-resolution spatial light scattering patterns from individual particles down to ~1 μm in size passing through a focused laser beam. Its significance lies in the ability of these patterns to provide morphological data for particle sizes well below the optical resolution limits of current cloud particle probes
Item Type Article
Identification Number 10.1364/OL.33.001545
Additional information This paper was published in Optics Letters and is made available as an electronic reprint with the permission of OSA. The paper can be found at the following URL on the OSA website: http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/browse.cfm Copyright Optical Society of America
Keywords cirrus clouds, diffraction, droplets
Date Deposited 15 May 2025 12:10
Last Modified 10 Sep 2025 20:16

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