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This research volume outlines the scientific foundations that are central to our current understanding of light scattering, absorption and polarization processes involving ice crystals. It also demonstrates how data from satellite remote sensing of cirrus clouds can be combined with radiation parameterizations in climate models to estimate the role of these clouds in temperature and precipitation responses to climate change. Providing a balanced treatment of the fundamentals and applications, this book synthesizes the authors' own work, as well as that of other leading researchers in this area. Numerous illustrations are included, including three-dimensional schematics, to provide a concise discussion of the subject and enable easy visualization of the key concepts. This book is intended for active researchers and advanced graduate students in atmospheric science, climatology, and remote sensing, as well as scholars in related fields such as ice microphysics, electromagnetic wave propagation, geometric optics, radiative transfer and cloud-climate interactions.

Light --- Ice clouds. --- Scattering. --- Ice crystal clouds --- Ice crystals in clouds --- Clouds --- Ice crystals --- Light scattering --- Scattering of light --- Diffusion --- Particles --- Reflection (Optics) --- Refraction --- Scattering (Physics)

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This is the eleventh volume in the series Light Scattering Reviews, devoted to current knowledge of light scattering problems and both experimental and theoretical research techniques related to their solution. The focus of this volume is to describe modern advances in radiative transfer and light scattering optics. This book brings together the most recent studies on light radiative transfer in the terrestrial atmosphere, while also reviewing environmental polarimetry. The book is divided into nine chapters: • the first four chapters review recent advances in modern radiative transfer theory and provide detailed descriptions of radiative transfer codes (e.g., DISORT and CRTM). Approximate solutions of integro-differential radiative transfer equations for turbid media with different shapes (spheres, cylinders, planeparallel layers) are detailed; • chapters 5 to 8 focus on studies of light scattering by single particles and radially inhomogeneous media; • the final chapter discusses the environmental polarimetry of man-made objects.

Earth sciences. --- Planetology. --- Atmospheric sciences. --- Remote sensing. --- Optics. --- Electrodynamics. --- Earth Sciences. --- Atmospheric Sciences. --- Optics and Electrodynamics. --- Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry. --- Light --- Radiative transfer. --- Scattering. --- Transfer, Radiative --- Light scattering --- Scattering of light --- Astrophysics --- Geophysics --- Heat --- Radiation --- Transport theory --- Diffusion --- Particles --- Reflection (Optics) --- Refraction --- Scattering (Physics) --- Radiation and absorption --- Classical Electrodynamics. --- Planetary sciences --- Planetology --- Remote-sensing imagery --- Remote sensing systems --- Remote terrain sensing --- Sensing, Remote --- Terrain sensing, Remote --- Aerial photogrammetry --- Aerospace telemetry --- Detectors --- Space optics --- Dynamics --- Physics --- Atmospheric sciences --- Earth sciences --- Atmosphere