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Kenneth Sassen
Researcher at University of Alaska Fairbanks
Publications - 154
Citations - 11973
Kenneth Sassen is an academic researcher from University of Alaska Fairbanks. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cirrus & Lidar. The author has an hindex of 50, co-authored 154 publications receiving 11283 citations. Previous affiliations of Kenneth Sassen include University of Utah.
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Backscatter laser depolarization studies of simulated stratospheric aerosols: Crystallized sulfuric acid droplets
TL;DR: It is concluded that partially crystallized sulfuric acid droplets are a likely candidate for explaining the lidar delta approximately 0.10 values that have been observed in the lower stratosphere in the absence of the relatively strong backscattering from homogeneous sulfuric Acid droplet or ice crystal.
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Ice cloud depolarization for nadir and off-nadir CALIPSO measurements
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined one-year Δaverages for day and night periods when the lidar was pointing close to the nadir and off-nadir (30°) in terms of geographic location and zonal height averages.
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Iridescence in an aircraft contrail
TL;DR: In this article, a simple diffraction-corona theory for the interpretation of cloud iridescence phenomenon is reviewed and applied to photographic observations of an iridescent contrail.
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Lidar Observations of High Plains Thunderstorm Precipitation
TL;DR: The results of a field program using a polarization diversity lidar system to study high plains thunderstorm precipitation are given in this article, where the presence of reflectivity bright bands of the general form predicted by a numerical simulation indicates that ice prune precipitation processes were predominantly acting in the storm studied.
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Polar stratospheric clouds at the South Pole from 5 years of continuous lidar data: Macrophysical, optical, and thermodynamic properties
TL;DR: In this paper, a 5-year data subset is presented to describe macrophysical, optical, and thermodynamic properties of polar stratospheric clouds (PSC) in austral winters 2000 and 2003-2006.