George W. Kattawar

TL;DR: Seven models for computing underwater radiances and irradiances by numerical solution of the radiative transfer equation are compared and provide consistent output, with errors in computed irradiances that are seldom larger, and are usually smaller, than the experimental errors made in measuring irradiances when using current oceanographic instrumentation.

TL;DR: In this paper, a data library is developed containing the scattering, absorption, and polarization properties of ice particles in the spectral range from 0.2 to 100 μm, based on a combination of the Amsterdam discrete dipole approximation (ADDA), the T-matrix method, and the improved geometric optics method (IGOM).

TL;DR: Comparisons show that the assumption of spherical ice particles in the near-IR through far-IR region is generally not optimal for radiative transfer computation, and a parameterization of the bulk optical properties is developed for mid-latitude cirrus clouds based on a set of 21 particle size distributions obtained from various field campaigns.

TL;DR: The matrix operator approach contains the doubling method as a special case and numerous curves are given for both the reflected and transmitted radiance for Rayleigh scattering from a homogeneous layer.