A short and concise treatment of satellite-based polarimetric remote sensing of cloud and aerosol properties, streamlined to facilitate the cover-to-cover walk-through of a 10-week course. The textbook starts with an overview of the climatic importance of cloud and aerosol and a brief introduction to their key properties, helping readers to understand the motivation behind their polarimetric remote sensing. As such, it covers basic definitions of polarimetric parameters, polarimetric signatures of scattering by cloud and aerosol particles, polarimetric radiative transfer in planetary...
A short and concise treatment of satellite-based polarimetric remote sensing of cloud and aerosol properties, streamlined to facilitate the cover-to-c...