Level 0 data for: A Microwave Scattering Database of Oriented Ice and Snow Particles: Supporting Habit-Dependent Growth Models and Radar Applications

This publication contains a new database of radar-relevant optical properties for a wide range of ice crystal shapes and aggregates, computed using the discrete dipole approximation (DDA) at 5.6, 9.6, 35.6, and 94 GHz. The database includes over 2,600 individual crystals and 450 aggregates with varying degrees of riming and morphology, and provides data at multiple levels of processing for use in forward operators and radar simulators. Published here is the level 0 data, which contains the raw output from the DDA calculations including the Mueller and Amplitude matrices at all scattering directions for each particle, along with log-files documenting the simulation settings. For further processing levels, the user is referred to https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16792943.

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