Measurements of circular depolarization of light scattered
from single ice particles
A. Kiselev*,1, T. Clauss1, P. H. Kaye2, E. Hirst2, R. Greenaway2, J. Ulanowski2, E. Hesse2 and M. Schnaiter3
- 1 Leibniz - Institute for Tropospheric Research, Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany.
- 2 University of Hertfordshire, Centre for Atmospheric and Instrumentation Research, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AOL10 9AB, United Kingdom.
- 3 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, P.O. box 3640, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany.
A novel small ice detector LISA was used to measure the circular depolarization ratio δC for light scattered from water droplets, just-frozen droplets and pristine ice crystals into near-backward direction. For hexagonal plates the values of δC were found to be very high compared to those for the columns and frozen droplets. For liquid droplets, the measured values of δC have shown a good agreement with the Mie calculations.
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