Calculation of the reflection function of an optically thick scattering layer for a Henyey-Greenstein phase function

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 24, 2000, Pages 4195-4204

  Melnikova, Irina N ^a,b   Dlugach, Zhanna M ^c   Nakajima, Teruyuki ^a   Kawamoto, Kazuaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^c NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF UKRAINE   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REFLECTION; SCATTERING;

REFLECTION FUNCTION;

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS;

EID: 0038168252     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.004195     Document Type: Article

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