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On derivation of the size distribution of cloud droplets from the phase function. (English) Zbl 1374.86038

Summary: This paper deals with an ill-posed problem to determine the size distribution for water drops in a cloud from a given scattering phase function. Numerical experiments have shown that a method based on non-negative least squares with additional requirements of smoothness can be used to solve the ill-posed problems.

MSC:

86A10 Meteorology and atmospheric physics
76M25 Other numerical methods (fluid mechanics) (MSC2010)
76T10 Liquid-gas two-phase flows, bubbly flows
86-08 Computational methods for problems pertaining to geophysics
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