Issue 6, May 2003

New papers on light scattering, radiative transfer, and remote sensing

published by NASA GISS scientists:

Mishchenko, M. I., and L. D. Travis, 2003: Electromagnetic scattering by nonspherical particles.

In Exploring the Atmosphere by Remote Sensing Techniques (R. Guzzi, Ed.),

Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 77-127.

Mishchenko, M. I., L. D. Travis, and A. A. Lacis, 2003: Radiative transfer: Scattering.

In Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences (J. R. Holton, J. Pyle, and J. A. Curry, Eds.),

Academic Press, San Diego, pp. 1882-1891.

Mishchenko, M. I., I. V. Geogdzhayev, L. Liu, J. A. Ogren, A. A. Lacis, W. B. Rossow,

J. W. Hovenier, H. Volten, and O. Muñoz, 2003:

Aerosol retrievals from AVHRR radiances: effects of particle nonsphericity and absorption

and an updated long-term global climatology of aerosol properties,

J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer 79/80, 953-972.

Liu, L., M. I. Mishchenko, J. W. Hovenier, H. Volten, and O. Muñoz, 2003

Scattering matrix of quartz aerosols: comparison and synthesis of laboratory and Lorenz-Mie results,

J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer 79/80, 911-920.

Mishchenko, M. I., 2002: Vector radiative transfer equation for arbitrarily shaped and

arbitrarily oriented particles: a microphysical derivation from statistical electromagnetics,

Appl. Opt. 41, 7114-7135.

Liu, L., M. I. Mishchenko, S. Menon, A. Macke, A. A. Lacis, 2002:

The effect of black carbon on scattering and absorption of solar radiation by cloud droplets,

J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer 74, 195-204.

To receive reprint of these papers, please send an e-mail request to Michael Mishchenko

at crmim@giss.nasa.gov.

To download a .pdf version, please visit the web site http://www.giss.nasa.gov/~crmim/publications/

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Arturo Quirantes (University of Granada, Spain) informs that several computer codes for light-scattering

calculations are now available at: his website http://www.ugr.es/~aquiran/codigos.htm.

They include Fortran source codes for calculations of light scattering by

- Homogeneous spheres (Mie)

- Coated spheres (Aden-Kerker)

- Coated spheroids (T-matrix)

plus a few helpful subroutines.

Feel free to use and adapt those programs for your own research, on a non-profit,

acknowledgement-given basis, as well as to spread information on these codes.

All suggestions are welcome.

There is also an online selection of Arturo’s papers at http://www.ugr.es/~aquiran/ciencia_investiga.htm,

most full-articles are digitally available upon request..

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