Single ice particles detection using light depolarization
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Single ice crystal measurements during nucleation experiments with the depolarization detector IODE M. Nicolet, O. Stetzer, U. Lohmann, and O. Möhler Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany Received: 11 September 2008 – Accepted: 16 October 2008 – Published: 16 December 2008 Correspondence to: M. Nicolet ([email protected]) Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union.
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