Light Scattering Reviews 3

Chapter 1. Single light scattering; 1.1 Observational quantification of the optical properties of clouds; 1.2 Anomalous diffraction of light by small particles and some applications in bio-agent detection; 1.3 Null-field method with discrete sources; 1.4 Spatial symmetries in electromagnetic and acoustic scattering theory;
Chapter 2. Inverse problems; 2.1 VLIDORT: A linearized pseudo-spherical vector discrete ordinate radiative transfer code for forward model and retrieval studies in multilayer multiple scattering media; 2.2 Linearized radiative transfer equation and inverse problems in a spherical atmosphere; 2.3 Time-dependent 1D and 3D radiative transfer in the diffusion regime, with applications to active and passive optical remote sensing of dense clouds;
Chapter 3. Light reflection from particulate surfaces; 3.1 Bi-directional reflectance studies of closely packed natural and artificial particulate surfaces; 3.2 Reflective properties of particulate media: theory and experiment; 3.3 Laboratory photopolarimetric measurements of particulate surfaces; 3.4 Modeling of light scattering by particulate media based on the geometrical optics approximation