Nacional'nyy issledovatel'skiy Tomskiy gosudarstvennyy universitet
UDC 535.8
CSCSTI 29.31
Russian Classification of Professions by Education 03.03.02
Russian Library and Bibliographic Classification 223
Russian Trade and Bibliographic Classification 613
BISAK SCI053000 Physics / Optics & Light
This report introduces ScIce-2025 – a database of light backscattering matrices for randomly oriented ice crystal particles of cirrus clouds. It contains the full spectrum of observed particle sizes (0.1–10,000 μm) and was obtained for three key lidar wavelengths (0.355, 0.532, and 1.064 μm). The database was generated using three fundamentally different light-scattering approaches: a rigorous numerical method, a physical optics method, and a geometric optics approximation. ScIce-2025 provides critical support for developing advanced lidar data interpretation algorithms, enabling more accurate analysis of cirrus clouds in both ground-based and space-based lidar observations.
remote sensing, database, cirrus clouds
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