The invention discloses a method and a device for measuring scattering property of a horizontally oriented particle swarm, and relates to the field of
atmospheric radiation, in order to solve the problem that the scattering property of the horizontally oriented particle swarm in
cirrus cloud cannot be measured at present. The method takes a
xenon search light as a
light source and lower cloud as a measurement object, adopts a common long-focus
charge coupled device (CCD) camera as recording equipment, utilizes the
xenon search light to irradiate the lower cloud towards the
zenith direction, and takes horizontally oriented ice
crystal particles as a horizontal mirror, wherein a
virtual image of the search light appears at the position of which the height is 2h, the angle widths of the ice
crystal particles can be obtained according to the relation of the camera, a search
light source and a
light source virtual image,
observable facula is divided into two parts when the direction of the camera is close to the
zenith direction, and the angle range of a
mirror image reflecting part needs to be constrained in that
delta theta is approximately equal to
lambda / D +2F. Thus, effective sizes D and vibration parameters F of the ice
crystal particles can be derived from the obtained
facula radius delta theta and
ray wavelength lambda. The method and the device are suitable for measurement of the scattering property of the horizontally oriented particle swarm.