Classification of ice crystal shapes in midlatitude ice clouds from three years of lidar observations over the SIRTA observatory Export

@article{NOEL:2006:HAL-00115274:1, abstract = {{T}his 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. {T}his technique is applied to three years of lidar depolarization ratio observations from the {SIRTA} ({S}ite {I}nstrumental de {R}echerche par {T}{\'{e}}l{\'{e}}d{\'{e}}tection {A}tmosph{\'{e}}rique) observatory in {P}alaiseau, {F}rance, amounting to 322 different days of ice cloud observations. {P}articles in clouds are classified in three major groups : plates, columns, and irregular shapes with aspect ratios close to unity. {R}etrieved shapes are correlated with radiosounding observations from a close-by meteorological station: temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction.}, author = {{n}oel, {v}incent and {c}hepfer, {h}{\'{e}}l{\`{e}}ne and {h}aeffelin, {m}artial and {m}orille, {y}ohann}, citeulike-article-id = {4828499}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00115274/en/}, journal = {{J}ournal of {A}tmospheric {S}ciences}, keywords = {cirrus, climatology, clouds, crystals, microphysics, shape}, pages = {2978--2991}, posted-at = {2009-06-12 18:37:25}, priority = {2}, title = {{C}lassification of ice crystal shapes in midlatitude ice clouds from three years of lidar observations over the {SIRTA} observatory}, url = {http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00115274/en/}, volume = {63}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - NOEL:2006:HAL-00115274:1 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4828499 N2 - {T}his 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. {T}his technique is applied to three years of lidar depolarization ratio observations from the {SIRTA} ({S}ite {I}nstrumental de {R}echerche par {T}{é}l{é}d{é}tection {A}tmosph{é}rique) observatory in {P}alaiseau, {F}rance, amounting to 322 different days of ice cloud observations. {P}articles in clouds are classified in three major groups : plates, columns, and irregular shapes with aspect ratios close to unity. {R}etrieved shapes are correlated with radiosounding observations from a close-by meteorological station: temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction. JF - {J}ournal of {A}tmospheric {S}ciences EP - 2991 TI - {C}lassification of ice crystal shapes in midlatitude ice clouds from three years of lidar observations over the {SIRTA} observatory VL - 63 SP - 2978 KW - cirrus KW - climatology KW - clouds KW - crystals KW - microphysics KW - shape AU - {n}oel, {v}incent AU - {c}hepfer, {h}{é}l{è}ne AU - {h}aeffelin, {m}artial AU - {m}orille, {y}ohann PY - 2006/// UR - http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00115274/en/ ER -