Kokhanovsky A.A. (ed.) Light Scattering Reviews 7. Radiative Transfer and Optical Properties of Atmosphere and Underlying Surface

Berlin: Springer, Praxis, 2013. — 260 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.
Notes on the contributors.Light Scattering and Radiative Transfer.
Light scattering by densely packed systems of particles: near-field effects – by Victor P. Tishkovets and Elena V. Petrova.
Multi-spectral luminescence tomography with the simplified spherical harmonics equations – by Alexander D. Klose.
Markovian approach and its applications in a cloudy atmosphere – by Evgueni Kassianov, Dana E. Lane-Veron, Larry K. Berg, Mikhail Ovchinnikov, and Pavlos Kollias.
Database of optical and structural data for the validation of forest radiative transfer models – by Andres Kuusk, Mait Lang, and Joel Kuusk.
Optical Properties of Snow and Natural Waters.
Reflection properties of snow surfaces – by Teruo Aoki.
Measuring optical backscattering in water – by James M. Sullivan, Michael S. Twardowski, J. Ronald, V. Zaneveld, and Casey C. Moore.
Molecular light scattering by pure seawater – by Xiaodong Zhang.