Kokhanovsky A.A. (ed.) Light Scattering Reviews 9. Light Scattering and Radiative Transfer

Berlin: Springer, Praxis, 2015. — 435 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.
Preface.
Light Scattering.
Light scattering by atmospheric mineral dust particles – by Timo Nousiainen and Konrad Kandler.
A review of approximate analytic light-scattering phase functions – by Subodh Kumar Sharma.
Scattering of electromagnetic plane waves in radially inhomogeneous media: ray theory, exact solutions and connections with potential scattering theory – by John A. Adam.
Remote Sensing.
Spectral dependence of MODIS cloud droplet effective radius retrievals for marine boundary layer clouds - Zhibo Zhang, Steven Platnick, Andrew S. Ackerman, and Hyoun-Myoung Cho.
Remote sensing of above cloud aerosols – by Kirk Knobelspiesse, Brian Cairns, Hiren Jethva, MeloЁe Kacenelenbogen, Michal Segal-Rosenheimer, and Omar Torres.
Polarimetry.
Principles of the Mueller matrix measurements – by Sergey N. Savenkov.
Reflectance and polarization characteristics of various vegetation types – by Jouni I. Peltoniemi, Maria Gritsevich, and Eetu Puttonen.
Radiative Forcing.
Diurnally averaged direct aerosol-induced radiative forcing from cloud-free sky field measurements performed during seven regional experiments – by Claudio Tomasi, Christian Lanconelli, Angelo Lupi, and Mauro Mazzola.