Solar Polarization

Preface. Scattering Physics; J.O. Stenflo. The Density Matrix Approach to Polarized Radiative Transfer; E. Landi Degl'Innocenti. Atomic Coherences and Leval-Crossing Physics; V. Bommier. Partial Frequency Redistribution of Polarized Radiation; H. Frisch. Partial Redistribution Effects on Line Polarization in the Presence of Velocity Fields; K.N. Nagendra. Diagnostics with the Nale Effect; M. Faurobert-Scholl. The First and Second Order Moments of the Polarization Profiles of Hydrogen Lines; R. Casini, E. Landi Degl'Innocenti. Magnetic Polarimetric Refraction in the Solar Corona; Y.N. Gnedin, E.D. Lopez. Numerical Methods in Polarized Radiative Transfer; D.E. Rees, G. Geers. Non-LTE Polarized Radiative Transfer in Intermediate Magnetic Fields: Numerical Problems and Results; V. Bommier, E. Landi Degl'Innocenti. The Polarization-Free Approximation; J. Trujillo Bueno, E. Landi Degl'Innocenti. The Polarization-Free Approximation Applied to Multi-Level Non-LTE Radiative Transfer; J.H.M.J. Brus, J. Trujillo Bueno. Stokes Profiles Inversion Techniques; J.C. Del Toro Iniesta, B. Ruiz Cobo. Contribution Functions for Polarized Radiative Transfer; J. Staude. Net Circular Polarization in Magnetic Spectral Lines Produced by Velocity Gradients: Some Analytical Results; M. Landolfi, E. Landi Degl'Innocenti. Micro-Structured Magnetic Atmospheres; J. Sánchez Almeida, E. Landi Degl'Innocenti. A Complex Diagnostic of Solar Prominences; P. Heinzel, et al. Polarized Radiation Diagnostics of Magnetohydrodynamic Models of the Solar Atmosphere; O. Steiner, et al. Recent Progress in Imaging Polarimetry; C.U. Keller. The Influence of Sunspot Canopies on Magnetic Inclination Measurements in Solar Plages; S.K. Solanki, et al.Measurement of the Full Stokes Vector of He I 10830 Å; I. Rüedi, et al. Inversion of Stokes Vector Profiles in Terms of a 3-Component Model; P.N. Bernasconi, S.K. Solanki. Field Azimuth Disambiguation Using Ambiguity-Free Currents; A. Skumanich, M. Semel. High Resolution Observations of Small-Scale Magnetic Elements and Interpretation; F. Kneer, F. Stolpe. Polarimetry of Solar Pores; P. Sütterlin, et al. High Resolution Polarimetric Measurements in a Sunspot; T. Horn, et al. Magnetic Fields of Sunspots Based on Combined Optical and Radio Observations; V.E. Abramov&endash;Maksimov, et al. Polarimetric Study of Solar Flares; E. Vogt, J.-C. Hénoux. Characteristics of the Linear Polarization Observed in the 16 May 1991 Solar Flare; N.M. Firstova, A.V. Boulatov. Fourier Parameters and Moments of Polarization Profiles of Magnetically Active Lines. Fourier vector Magnetograph; B. Ioshpa, et al. Aspects of the Zero Leval Problem of Solar Magnetographs; M.L. Demidov. Singular Points of the Polarization Tensor; M.M. Molodensky, L.I. Starkova. Determination of Polarization of Vacuum-Ultraviolet Radiation by Fluorescence and Probe-Beam Techniques; V.Yu. Backman, et al. Balloon-Borne Polarimetry; D.M. Rust, et al. Zeeman- Doppler Imaging of Solar-Type Stars: Multi Line Technique; M. Semel, J. Li. Author Index. List of Participants.