On definition and measurement of extinction cross section

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 110, Issue 4-5, 2009, Pages 323-327

  Mishchenko, Michael I ^a   Berg, Matthew J ^b   Sorensen, Christopher M ^b   van der Mee, Cornelis V M ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic scattering; Extinction

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING; EXTINCTION; EXTINCTION CROSS SECTIONS; INCIDENT BEAMS; SINGLE PARTICLES;

PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS;

DETECTION METHOD; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENT; MEASUREMENT METHOD;

EID: 60949103946     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2008.11.010     Document Type: Article

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