Overview
- Summarizes recent developments in the fields of light scattering media optics and radiative transfer
- Provides an up to date review of modern single and multiple light scattering theory
- Focuses on radiative transfer and optics of highly reflective objects, such as snow and ice
- Uniquely covers numerical techniques in single and multiple light scattering
- Considers both theoretical and experimental results
- Presents the physical grounds of the opposition effects
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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 (11 chapters)
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Optical Properties of Small Particles and their Aggregates
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Modern Methods in Radiative Transfer
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Optical Properties of Bright Surfaces and Regoliths
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Light Scattering Reviews 5
Book Subtitle: Single Light Scattering and Radiative Transfer
Editors: Alexander A. Kokhanovsky
Series Title: Springer Praxis Books
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10336-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-10335-3Published: 27 August 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-42325-3Published: 08 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-10336-0Published: 05 August 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 549
Additional Information: Jointly published with Praxis Publishng, UK
Topics: Environmental Physics, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, Atmospheric Sciences, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Geophysics/Geodesy