Scattering and absorption cross sections for randomly oriented spheroids of arbitrary size

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 79-80, Issue , 2003, Pages 939-951

  Min, M ^a   Hovenier, J W ^a   de Koter, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Absorption; Aerosols; Cross sections; Dust; Scattering; Spheroids

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; LIGHT EXTINCTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

SPHEROIDS;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 17144472395     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-4073(02)00330-8     Document Type: Article

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