Format:
Online-Ressource (XXV, 632 p. 229 illus., 61 illus. in color, digital)
ISBN:
9783642321061
Series Statement:
Springer Praxis Books
Content:
Light scattering review (vol 8) is aimed at the presentation of recent advances in radiative transfer and light scattering optics. The topics to be covered include: scattering of light by irregularly shaped particles suspended in the atmosphere (dust, ice crystals), light scattering by particles much larger as compared the wavelength of incident radiation, atmospheric radiative forcing, astrophysical radiative transfer, radiative transfer and optical imaging in biological media, radiative transfer of polarized light, numerical aspects of radiative transfer
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; List of Contributors; Notes on the contributors; Preface; Part I Single Light Scattering; 1 Light scattering by irregular particles in the Earth's atmosphere; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Basic definitions of scattering; 1.3 Electromagnetic and light scattering methods; 1.4 A myriad of sizes and shapes; 1.4.1 The sizes and shapes of mineral dust and volcanic ash particles in the Earth's atmosphere; 1.4.2 The sizes and shapes of ice crystals in the Earth's atmosphere; 1.5 Idealized geometrical models of mineral dust aerosol and ice crystals and their single-scattering properties
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1.5.1 Aerosol models and their light scattering properties1.5.2 Ice crystal models and their light scattering properties; 1.5.2.1 Single ice crystal models; 1.5.2.2 Habit mixture models of cirrus; 1.5.2.3 The single-scattering properties of ice crystals; 1.6 Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; 2 Physical-geometric optics hybrid methods for computing the scattering and absorption properties of ice crystals and dust aeros; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Conceptual Basis; 2.3 Geometric-optics-based near-field; 2.3.1 Effective refractive index and Snell's law; 2.3.2 Beam-tracing technique
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2.3.3 Field-tracing2.4 Physical optics and scattered far-field; 2.4.1 Fredholm volume integral equation; 2.4.2 Kirchhoff surface integral equation; 2.4.3 Intensity mapping algorithm; 2.5 Extinction and absorption; 2.5.1 PGOH cross-sections; 2.5.2 Tunneling/edge effect; 2.6 Numerical examples for ice crystals and mineral dusts; 2.7 Summary; Acknowledgments; References; 3 Light scattering by large particles: physical optics and the shadow-forming field; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Physical-optics approximations in the problem of light scattering; 3.2.1 Light scattering by use of the Maxwell equations
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3.2.2 Geometric optics versus the Maxwell equations3.2.3 Light scattering by use of geometric optics; 3.2.4 What is physical optics? Diffraction and interference; 3.2.5 Physical-optics approximations; 3.3 The shadow-forming field; 3.3.1 Does the shadow-forming field exist in reality?; 3.3.2 Conservation of the partial energy fluxes; 3.3.3 Scattering and extinction cross-sections; 3.3.4 Cross-sections for large optically hard particles; 3.3.6 Can the extinction efficiency exceed number 4?; 3.4 Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References
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4 A pseudo-spectral time domain method for light scattering computation4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Conceptual background; 4.2.1 Scattering properties of interest; 4.2.2 Near-field calculations; An approximation to save memory; Scattered and incident fields; 4.2.3 Near-to-far-field transformation; Doing the Fourier transformation; 4.3 Derivatives: finite difference versus spectral; 4.4 The Gibbs phenomenon; 4.5 Some PSTD results; 4.5.1 Comparison with Lorenz-Mie calculations; Large particles; Larger mR; 4.5.2 Comparison with T-matrix calculations; 4.5.3 Two less-symmetric examples
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4.6 Comparison with DDA
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783642321054
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Light scattering reviews ; 8 Berlin : Springer, 2013 ISBN 9783642321054
Language:
English
Subjects:
Physics
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-642-32106-1
URL:
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Author information:
Kochanovskij, Aleksandr A. 1961-
