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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-419-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-419-2023
Research article
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26 Jan 2023
Research article |  | 26 Jan 2023

A study of optical scattering modelling for mixed-phase polar stratospheric clouds

Francesco Cairo, Terry Deshler, Luca Di Liberto, Andrea Scoccione, and Marcel Snels

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The T-matrix theory was used to compute the backscatter and depolarization of mixed-phase PSC, assuming that particles are solid (NAT or possibly ice) above a threshold radius R and liquid (STS) below, and a single shape is common to all solid particles. We used a dataset of coincident lidar and balloon-borne backscattersonde and OPC measurements. The agreement between modelled and measured backscatter is reasonable and allows us to constrain the parameters R and AR.
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