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Figure 2 .Reflectance image at 450 nm over stratiform cloud,Darker shades correspond to lower
reflectances.
Figure 3 : Polarized reflectance image at 450 nm over stratiform cloud. Darker area correspond to lower
reflectances.
The flight direction here was nearly parallel to the sun incident plane, with the antispecular
direction (i.e. scattering angle 180°, or zero phase angle) near the top of the picture, and this
highly polarized feature corresponds to viewing directions (0 v ,v) such that the scattering
angle 0 is near from 140° (i.e. cos © = cos0 s cos8 v + sin0 s sin0 v cos4> v ). This rainbow signature
was a permanent characteristic of these low, very probably liquid water clouds.
In other viewing directions, the polarized reflectance remained rather low.
Scattering angle (degreel
Figure 4 Polarized reflectances versus scattering angle at 40U and 850 nm.
