The Effect of Variations of the Complex Refractive Index on the Radar Characteristics of an Ice Sphere

The report discusses the effect of variations of the real and imaginary parts of the complex refractive index on the values of the effective backscattering, total-scattering, and attenuation cross sections. Numerical values of the backscattering of an ice sphere at temperatures of -10 and -20 C are...

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Main Authors: Krasyuk,N. P, Rozenberg,V. I
Format: Report
Language:English
Subjects:
ATTENUATION
BACKSCATTERING
HAIL
Meteorology
RADAR REFLECTIONS
REFRACTIVE INDEX
TRANSLATIONS
USSR
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Summary:The report discusses the effect of variations of the real and imaginary parts of the complex refractive index on the values of the effective backscattering, total-scattering, and attenuation cross sections. Numerical values of the backscattering of an ice sphere at temperatures of -10 and -20 C are presented for a wide range of diameters and wavelengths. An estimate is made of the degree of approximation of the scattering and attenuation cross sections to the limiting values. (Author) Edited trans. of Vysokogornyi Geofizicheskii Institut, Nalchik. Trudy (USSR) n13 p215-229 1969, by Louise Heenan.