This is the eleventh volume in the series Light Scattering Reviews, devoted to current knowledge of light scattering problems and both experimental and theoretical research techniques related to their solution. The focus of this volume is to describe modern advances in radiative transfer and light scattering optics.
This book brings together the most recent studies on light radiative transfer in the terrestrial atmosphere, while also reviewing environmental polarimetry. The book is divided into nine chapters:
• the first four chapters review recent advances in modern radiative transfer theory and provide detailed descriptions of radiative transfer codes (e.g., DISORT and CRTM). Approximate solutions of integro-differential radiative transfer equations for turbid media with different shapes (spheres, cylinders, planeparallel layers) are detailed;
• chapters 5 to 8 focus on studies of light scattering by single particles and radially inhomogeneous media;
• the final chapter discusses the environmental polarimetry of man-made objects.
Author(s): Alexander Kokhanovsky (eds.)
Series: Springer Praxis Books
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: XXI, 509
Tags: Atmospheric Sciences; Optics and Electrodynamics; Planetology; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry
Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Discrete Ordinate Algorithm, DISORT for Radiative Transfer....Pages 3-65
Community Radiative Transfer Model for Air Quality Studies....Pages 67-115
Analytical Solution of Radiative Transfer Using Cumulant Expansion....Pages 117-142
Radiative Transfer in Spherically and Cylindrically Symmetric Media....Pages 143-216
Front Matter....Pages 217-217
The Debye Series and Its Use in Time-Domain Scattering....Pages 219-297
Morphological Models for Inhomogeneous Particles: Light Scattering by Aerosols, Cometary Dust, and Living Cells....Pages 299-337
Some Wave-Theoretic Problems in Radially Inhomogeneous Media....Pages 339-361
Light Scattering and Thermal Emission by Primitive Dust Particles in Planetary Systems....Pages 363-418
Front Matter....Pages 419-419
Polarimetry of Man-Made Objects....Pages 421-501
Back Matter....Pages 503-509
