Abstract

It is accepted that the contribution of multiple scattering in Lidar measurements from optically dense media causes difficulties in the interpretation of the Lidar signal usually based on a single-scattering approximation⁽¹⁾. This is due to the fact that most methods used in the past for inferring particle sizes from measurements obtained by a Lidar, were based on spectral or angular single scattering measurements⁽²⁾. On the other hand the multiple scattering itself provides an additional piece of information when it can be separated from the single-scattering contribution.This additional information is used below to deduce the cloud droplet size distribution function.

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