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Limits of applicability of the laser-location equation in the optical probing of clouds

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By simultaneously solving the transient transport equation and the equation of laser location, the effect of the multiple-back-scattering background in a monostatic cloud-probing system on the accuracy of the optical measurement of back-scattering coefficients is analyzed. The transport equation is solved by the Monte Carlo method. Calculations are carried out for the most promising optical-probing wavelengths λ = 0.6943; 2.36 and 10.6μ, and a comparative analysis of their efficiencies is presented. The optical characteristics of a polydispersed liquid-drop cloud (one with a wide spread of particle sizes) are presented for the wavelengths in question.

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  1. Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Siberian Branch, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, USSR

    V. E. Zuev, G. M. Krekov & M. M. Krekova

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 8, pp. 13–20, August, 1974.

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Zuev, V.E., Krekov, G.M. & Krekova, M.M. Limits of applicability of the laser-location equation in the optical probing of clouds. Soviet Physics Journal 17, 1061–1067 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00901590

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