On the size, shape, and orientation of noctilucent cloud particles

Craig F. Bohren

doi:10.3402/tellusb.v35i1.14587

On the size, shape, and orientation of noctilucent cloud particles

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volume 35 (1983): Issue 1

By: Craig F. Bohren

Open Access

|Jan 1983

Asano , S. and Sato. M. 1980 . Light scattering by randomly oriented spheroidal particles . Appl. Opt . 19 , 962 – 974 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Bohren , C. F. and Huffman , D. R. 1981 . Absorption cross-section maxima and minima in IR absorption bands of small ionic ellipsoidal particles . Appl. Opt . 20 , 959 – 962 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Donahue , T. M. , Guenther , B. and Blamont , J. E. 1972 . Noctilucent clouds in daytime: Circumpolar particulate layers near the summer mesopause . J. Atmos. Sci . 29 , 1205 – 1209 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Fraser , A. B. 1979 . What size of ice crystals causes the halos? J. Opt. Soc. Am . 69 , 1112 – 1118 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Gadsden , M. 1975 . Observations of the color and polarization of noctilucent clouds . Ann. de Geophys . 31 , 507 – 516 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Gadsden , M. 1977 . The polarization of noctilucent clouds . Ann. de Geophys . 33 , 363 – 366 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Gadsden , M. 1978 . The sizes of particles in noctilucent clouds: Implications for mesospheric water vapor . J. Geophys. Res . 83 , 1155 – 1156 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Gadsden , M. , Rothwell , P. and Taylor , M. J. 1979 . Detection of circularly polarized light from noctilucent clouds . Nature 278 , 628 – 629 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Grenfell , T. C. and Perovich , D. K. 1981 . Radiation absorption coefficients of polycrystalline ice from 400-1400 nm . J. Geophys. Res . 86 , 7447 – 7450 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Holland , A. C. and Gagne , G. 1970 . The scattering of polarized light by polydisperse systems of irregular particles . Appl. Opt . 9 . 1113 – 1121 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Hummel , J. R. and Olivero , J. O. 1976 . Satellite observations of the mesospheric scattering layer and implied climatic consequences . J. Geophys. Res . 81 , 3177 – 3178 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Hunten , D. M. , Turco , R. P. and Toon , O. B. 1980 . Smoke and dust particles of meteoric origin in the mesosphere and stratosphere . J. A tmos. Sci . 37 , 1342 – 1357 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Kerker , M. 1969 . The scattering of light and other electromagnetic radiation . Academic , New York .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Perrin , F. 1942 . Polarization of light scattered by isotropic opalescent media . J. Chem. Phys . 10 , 415 – 427 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Perry , R. J. , Hunt , A. J. and Huffman , D. R. 1978 . Experimental determinations of Mueller scattering matrices for nonspherical particles . Appl. Opt . 17 , 2700 – 2710 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Reid , G. C. 1975 . Ice clouds at the summer polar mesopause . J. A tmos. Sci . 32 , 523 – 535 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Shurcliff , W. A. 1962 . Polarized light . Harvard University Press , Cambridge , Mass .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Tozer , W. F. and Beeson , D. E. 1974 . Optical model of noctilucent clouds based on polarimetric measurements from two rocket campaigns . J. Geophys. Res . 79 , 5607 – 5612 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
van de Hulst , H. C. 1957 . Light scattering by small particles . Wiley , New York .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Witt , G. 1960 . Polarization of light from noctilucent clouds. J . Geophys. Res . 6 . 5 . 925 – 933 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Witt , G. 1969 . The nature of noctilucent clouds . Space Res . 9 , 157 – 169 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Witt , G. , Dye , J. E. and Wilhelm. N. 1976 . Rocket-borne measurements of scattered sunlight in the mesosphere . J. Amos. Terr. Phys . 38 , 223 – 238 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article