TY - JOUR
T1 - Properties of atmospheric ice crystals at South Pole station
AU - Lawson, R. Paul
AU - Baker, B. A.
AU - Zmarzly, P.
AU - O'Connor, D.
AU - Mo, Q.
AU - Gayet, J. F.
AU - Shcherbakov, V.
PY - 2006/12
Y1 - 2006/12
N2 - In February 2001, more than 900,000 high-resolution digital images of ice crystals were recorded at the South Pole using two ground-based cloud particle imagers (CPIs), When sorted by number, 30% of the crystals were rosette shapes, 45% were diamond dust and 25% were irregular-shaped crystals. When sorted by area, rosette shapes comprised 50%, diamond dust 30% and irregulars 20%. By mass, the percentages were 57% rosette shapes, 23% diamond dust and 20% irregulars. In 2002, a polar nephelometer (P-N) that measures scattering phase function was incorporated with one of the CPIs. Particle size distributions as a function of maximum dimension and equivalent radius compared favorably with previous studies.
AB - In February 2001, more than 900,000 high-resolution digital images of ice crystals were recorded at the South Pole using two ground-based cloud particle imagers (CPIs), When sorted by number, 30% of the crystals were rosette shapes, 45% were diamond dust and 25% were irregular-shaped crystals. When sorted by area, rosette shapes comprised 50%, diamond dust 30% and irregulars 20%. By mass, the percentages were 57% rosette shapes, 23% diamond dust and 20% irregulars. In 2002, a polar nephelometer (P-N) that measures scattering phase function was incorporated with one of the CPIs. Particle size distributions as a function of maximum dimension and equivalent radius compared favorably with previous studies.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/33846515156
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33846515156
SN - 0003-0007
VL - 87
SP - 1668
EP - 1670
JO - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
JF - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
IS - 12
ER -