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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-3011-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-3011-2024
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17 May 2024
Research article |  | 17 May 2024

Multiple-scattering effects on single-wavelength lidar sounding of multi-layered clouds

Valery Shcherbakov, Frédéric Szczap, Guillaume Mioche, and Céline Cornet

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We performed Monte Carlo simulations of single-wavelength lidar signals from multi-layered clouds with special attention focused on the multiple-scattering (MS) effect in regions of the cloud-free molecular atmosphere. The MS effect on lidar signals always decreases with the increasing distance from the cloud far edge. The decrease is the direct consequence of the fact that the forward peak of particle phase functions is much larger than the receiver field of view.
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