Articles | Volume 17, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-2741-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-2741-2017
Research article
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23 Feb 2017
Research article |  | 23 Feb 2017

Microphysical properties of frozen particles inferred from Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Microwave Imager (GMI) polarimetric measurements

Jie Gong and Dong L. Wu

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Under certain temperature or aerodynamic conditions, ice crystals prefer to orient along certain directions. The preferred orientation direction of non-spherical ice particles would result in a difference in the satellite remote sensing using different polarized channels. This paper studies this polarization difference using the Global Precipitation Measurement Microwave Imager, where we can infer the dominant ice particle orientation and shape factors from passive remote sensing measures.
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