Abstract: Green?s function is a widely used approach for boundary value problems. In problems related to radiative transfer, Green?s function has been found to be useful in land, ocean, and atmosphere remote sensing. It is also a ...

Abstract: It is well known that optical satellite remote sensing is mostly based on measurements of the radiance exiting the top of the earth's atmosphere and is interpreted using a comparison of the data with precalculated tables ...

Abstract: An extremely simple, practical method is presented for determining aerosol size distributions approximately. Assuming a Haze H model for aerosol particles, a set of simple graphs and tables is produced to give an immediate ...

Abstract: We have employed the analytic eigenfunction technique, first developed by McWhirter and Pike, to obtain aerosol columnar size distributions from realistic Mie extinction measurements. The theory was tested out and its range ...

Abstract: We show that the equation of radiative transfer is invariant under a group of simultaneous transformations of the scale (i.e., the optical thickness) and the phase function. In this way, we provide a unified explanation ...

Abstract: This paper describes the retrieval of aerosol size distributions from the measurements of multispectral solar extinction data, by the use of two retrieval methods?a fast approximate method and the numerical nonlinear ...