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Scattering, Absorption, and Emission of Light by Small Particles

Authors:
Michael I. Mishchenko, NASA-Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville
Larry D. Travis, NASA-Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville
Andrew A. Lacis, NASA-Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville

Date Published: June 2002
availability: Unavailable - out of print October 2003
format: Hardback
isbn: 9780521782524

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This thorough and up-to-date treatment first introduces the general formalism of scattering, absorption, and emission of light and other electromagnetic radiation by arbitrarily shaped and arbitrarily oriented particles. It then discusses the relation of the radiative transfer theory to single-scattering solutions of Maxwell's equations and describes in detail exact theoretical methods and computer codes for calculating scattering, absorption, and emission properties of arbitrarily shaped particles. Further chapters demonstrate how scattering and absorption characteristics of small particles depend on particle size, refractive index, shape, and orientation. The work illustrates how the high efficiency and accuracy of existing theoretical and experimental techniques, and the availability of fast scientific workstations, result in advanced physically-based applications of electromagnetic scattering to non-invasive particle characterization and remote sensing. This book will be valuable for science professionals, engineers and graduate students in a wide range of disciplines including optics, electromagnetics, remote sensing, climate research, and biomedicine.
- Provides a thorough, up-to-date treatment of electromagnetic scattering by arbitrary small particles
- Describes advanced computer codes publicly available on the Internet
- Illustrates applications of electromagnetic scattering to particle characterization and remote sensing
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'This excellent book is bound to become the principal standard reference on scattering of electromagnetic radiation by small particles.' Space Science Reviews

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Product details
- Date Published: June 2002
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521782524
- length: 462 pages
- dimensions: 255 x 180 x 29 mm
- weight: 1.148kg
- contains: 152 b/w illus. 16 colour illus. 14 tables
- availability: Unavailable - out of print October 2003
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I. Basic Theory of Electromagnetic Scattering, Absorption, and Emission:
1. Polarization characteristics of electromagnetic radiation
2. Scattering, absorption, and emission of electromagnetic radiation by an arbitrary finite particle
3. Scattering, absorption and emission by collections of independent particles
4. Scattering matrix and macroscopically isotropic and mirror-symmetric scattering media
Part II. Calculation and Measurement of Scattering and Absorption Characteristics of Small Particles:
5. T-matrix method and Lorenz-Mie theory
6. Miscellaneous exact techniques
7. Approximations
8. Measurement techniques
Part III. Scattering and Absorption Properties of Small Particles and Illustrative Applications:
9. Scattering and absorption properties of spherical particles
10. Scattering and absorption properties of nonspherical particles
Appendices
References
Index.
Authors
Michael I. Mishchenko, NASA-Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville
Michael Mishchenko is a Physical Scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. He gained his PhD in Physics at the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences in 1987, and has since been Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on several NASA projects and has served as Topical Editor and Editorial Board Member of several leading scientific journals. His research interests include electromagnetic scattering, radiative transfer in planetary atmospheres and surfaces, and remote sensing.
Larry D. Travis, NASA-Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville
Larry Travis is presently Associate Chief of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. He gained his PhD in Astronomy at Pennsylvania State University in 1971. He has acted as Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on several NASA projects, and was awarded a NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal. His research interests include theoretical interpretation of remote sensing measurements of polarization, planetary atmospheres, atmospheric dynamics, and radiative transfer.
Andrew A. Lacis, NASA-Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville
Andrew Lacis is a Physical Scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and teaches radiative transfer at Colombia University. He gained his PhD in Physics at the University of Iowa in 1970, and has acted as Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator of several NASA and DOE projects. His research interests include radiative transfer in planetary atmospheres, absorption of solar radiation by the Earth's atmosphere, and climate modelling.