Scattering, Absorption, and Emission of Light by Small Particles

Michael I. Mishchenko, Larry D. Travis, Andrew A. Lacis052178252X, 9780521782524

This thorough and up-to-date treatment introduces the general formalism of scattering, absorption, and emission of light and other electromagnetic radiation by arbitrarily shaped and arbitrarily oriented particles. It 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.