Light Scattering Reviews 6. Single Light Scattering and Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere and Surface

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Berlin: Springer, Praxis, 2012. — 350 pp.Light scattering media optics has a number of important applications including remote sensing of planetary atmospheres and surfaces, medical diagnostics and image transfer in ocean and atmosphere.List of contributors. Preface. Single Light Scattering. Polar nephelometers for light scattering by ice crystals and aerosols: design and measurements – by Brian Barkey, Suzanne Paulson and Kuo-Nan Liou. Light scattering by irregularly shaped particles with sizes comparable to the wavelength – by Evgenij S. Zubko. Finite-difference time-domain solution of light scattering by arbitrarily shaped particles and surfaces – by Wenbo Sun, Gorden Videen, Qiang Fu, Stoyan Tanev, Bing Lin, Yongxiang Hu, Zhaoyan Liu, and Jianping Huang. Advances in finite-difference time-domain calculation methods – by James B. Cole, Naoki Okada, and Saswatee Banerjee. Radiative Transfer and Remote Sensing. Radiative Transfer in Coupled Systems – by Knut Stamnes and Jakob J. Stamnes. Airborne measurements of spectral shortwave radiation in cloud and aerosol remote sensing and energy budget studies – by Sebastian Schmidt and Peter Pilewskie. The retrieval of snow characteristics from optical measurements – by Alexander A. Kokhanovsky and Vladimir V. Rozanov. Index.