Single light scattering and radiative transfer
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Single light scattering and radiative transfer
（Springer-Praxis books in environmental sciences, . Light scattering reviews ; 4）
Springer, c2009
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This fourth volume of Light Scattering Reviews is composed of three parts. The ?rstpartisconcernedwiththeoreticalandexperimentalstudiesofsinglelightsc- tering by small nonspherical particles. Light scattering by small particles such as, for instance, droplets in the terrestrial clouds is a well understood area of physical optics. On the other hand, exact theoretical calculations of light scattering p- terns for most of nonspherical and irregularly shaped particles can be performed only for the restricted values of the size parameter, which is proportional to the ratio of the characteristic size of the particle to the wavelength?. For the large nonspherical particles, approximations are used (e. g. , ray optics). The exact th- retical techniques such as the T-matrix method cannot be used for extremely large particles, such as those in ice clouds, because then the size parameter in the v- iblex=2?a/???,wherea is the characteristic size (radius for spheres), and the associated numerical codes become unstable and produce wrong answers. Yet another problem is due to the fact that particles in many turbid media (e. g. , dust clouds) cannot be characterized by a single shape. Often, refractive indices also vary. Because of problems with theoretical calculations, experimental (i. e. , la- ratory) investigations are important for the characterization and understanding of the optical properties of such types of particles. The ?rst paper in this volume, written by B. Gustafson, is aimed at the descr- tionofscaledanalogueexperimentsinelectromagneticscattering.
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Part II. Single light scattering,- 1. Scaled analogue experiments in electromagnetic scattering,- 2. Laboratory measurements of the light scatterd by clouds of solid particles by imaging technique,- 3. Jones and Mueller matrices: structure, symmetry relations and information content,- 4.Green functions for plane wave scattering on single nonspherical particles,- Part II. Radiative Transfer,- 5. Space-time Green functions for diffusive radiation transport, in application to active and passive cloud probing,- 6. Radiative transfer of luminescence light in biological tissue,- 7. The characteristic equation of radiative transfer,- Part III,- 8. Advances in dynamic light scattering techniques,- 9. Static and dynamic light scatering by aerosols in a controlled environment
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