Kokhanovsky A.A. (ed.) Light Scattering Reviews 8

Berlin: Springer, Praxis, 2013. — 650 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.Single Light Scattering.
Light scattering by irregular particles in the Earth’s atmosphere – by Anthony J. Baran.
Physical-geometric optics hybrid methods for computing the scattering and absorption properties of ice crystals and dust aerosols – by Lei Bi and Ping Yang.
Light scattering by large particles: physical optics and the shadow-forming field – by Anatoli G. Borovoi.
A pseudo-spectral time domain method for light scattering computation – by R. Lee Panetta, Chao Liu, and Ping Yang.
Application of non-orthogonal bases in the theory of light scattering by spheroidal particles – by Victor Farafonov.
Radiative Transfer.
Radiative transfer and optical imaging in biological media by low-order transport approximations: the simplified spherical harmonics (SPN) approach – by Jorge Bouza Dom´ınguez and Yves B´erub´e-Lauzi`ere.
Transillumination of highly scattering media by polarized light – by Evgenii E. Gorodnichev, Sergei V. Ivliev, Alexander I. Kuzovlev, and Dmitrii B. Rogozkin.
On the application of the invariant embedding method and the radiative transfer equation codes for surface state analysis – by Victor P. Afanas’ev, Dmitry S. Efremenko and Alexander V. Lubenchenko.
On some trends in the progress of astrophysical radiative transfer – by Arthur G. Nikoghosian.
A review of fast radiative transfer techniques – by Vijay Natraj.
Dependence of direct aerosol radiative forcing on the optical properties of atmospheric aerosol and underlying surface – by Claudio Tomasi, Christian Lanconelli, Angelo Lupi, and Mauro Mazzola.