Inversion techniques for determining the droplet size distribution in clouds: numerical examination

Autor:	L. C. Chow, Chuen-Lin Tien
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	Physics Scattering business.industry Materials Science (miscellaneous) Mie scattering Inversion (meteorology) Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Light scattering Optics Random error Business and International Management business Refractive index Droplet size Atmospheric optics
Zdroj:	Applied optics. 15(2)
ISSN:	1559-128X
Popis:	The Phillips-Twomey and Backus-Gilbert inversion techniques are applied to determine the size distribution of water droplets in clouds from light scattering data at backward angles. The data are generated numerically from the Mie scattering functions and an assumed cloud model. The size distribution is recovered from these data using the two inversion techniques and is compared with the assumed model. It is found that the Phillips-Twomey technique gives better agreement between the assumed and recovered size distributions than the Backus-Gilbert technique. Also, it is more stable to random errors artificially introduced into the scattering data.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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