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Light Scattering Reviews 4

Single Light Scattering and Radiative Transfer

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  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Alexander A. Kokhanovsky

    1. Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

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  • Summarizes recent developments in the field of light scattering media optics and radiative transfer
  • Both theoretical and experimental results are considered

Part of the book series: Springer Praxis Books (PRAXIS)

Part of the book sub series: Environmental Sciences (ENVIRONSCI)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXVII
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  2. Single Light Scattering

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Scaled analogue experiments in electromagnetic scattering

      • Bo Å. S. Gustafson
      Pages 3-30

    3. Laboratory measurements of the light scattered by clouds of solid particles by imaging technique

      • Edith Hadamcik, Jean-Baptiste Renard, Anny-Chantal Levasseur-Regourd, Jean-Claude Worms
      Pages 31-70

    4. Jones and Mueller matrices: structure, symmetry relations and information content

      • Sergey N. Savenkov
      Pages 71-119

    5. Green functions for plane wave scattering on single nonspherical particles

      • Tom Rother
      Pages 121-166

  3. Radiative Transfer

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167
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    2. Space-time Green functions for diffusive radiation transport, in application to active and passive cloud probing

      • Anthony B. Davis, Igor N. Polonsky, Alexander Marshak
      Pages 169-292

    3. Radiative transfer of luminescence light in biological tissue

      • Alexander D. Klose
      Pages 293-345

    4. The characteristic equation of radiative transfer theory

      • Nikolai N. Rogovtsov, Felix N. Borovik
      Pages 347-429

  4. Dynamic and Static Light Scattering: Selected Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 431-431
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    2. Advances in dynamic light scattering techniques

      • Pavel Zakharov, Frank Scheffold
      Pages 433-467

    3. Static and dynamic light scattering by aerosols in a controlled environment

      • Ravindra Pratap Singh
      Pages 469-509

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 511-515
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About this book

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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From the reviews: “This collective monograph was published as volume 4 of the well-established Praxis/Springer series ‘Light Scattering Reviews’ … . this one is a must for any research or university library as well as for individual professionals working in the fields related to light scattering. This volume is a … demonstration of an advanced maturation stage of this useful series of monographs which have contributed quite significantly to thorough, systematic, and accessible exposition of the discipline of electromagnetic scattering by particles and its various applications.” (Michael I. Mishchenko, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer, Vol. 111, 2010)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Alexander A. Kokhanovsky

About the editor

 I  graduated from the Physical Department of the Belarusian State University in Minsk, Belarus (1983). Since then I have worked for the last 22 years in the Laboratory of light scattering media optics at the Institute of Physics (Minsk, Belarus). At the moment I am working with the SCIAMACHY algorithm development team at the Institute of Environmental Physics in Bremen (Germany). The main task is the development of new cloud retrieval algorithms for water and ice clouds as seen by the spectrometer SCIAMACHY (in space from 2002). Main results are obtained in the field of geometrical optics, asymptotic radiative transfer theory and trace gases/aerosol/cloud properties retrievals using passive remote sensing techniques.

I have written three books: Light Scattering Media Optics (1999, 2001, 2004), Polarization Optics of Random Media (2003), and

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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