Limits to applicability of geometrical optics approximation to light backscattering by quasihorizontally oriented hexagonal ice plates

Quasihorizontally oriented ice crystals of cirrus clouds became an object of active study in recent times. Experimental observations are made with the use of multiwavelength and polarization lidars; their signals are interpreted on the basis of solutions obtained in the approximation of physical or geometrical optics. In this work, we compare these approximations for solution of the problem of light backscattering by quasihorizontally oriented hexagonal ice plates. Special attention is paid to the limits to applicability of geometrical optics approach to solution of such problems.

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