This category deals with scattering and absorption of electromagnetic radiation by particles, molecules, and surfaces incuding multiple scattering effects (in other words, radiative transfer). According to the optics classification of the Optical Society of America this field consists of the following topics:

• Aerosol and cloud effects
• Atmospheric scattering
• Backscattering
• Diffusion
• Extinction
• Index measurements
• Inverse scattering
• Linewidth

• Long-wave scattering
• Mie theory
• Multiple scattering
• Scattering measurements
• Scattering, Brillouin
• Scattering, molecules
• Scattering, particles
• Scattering, Raman

• Scattering, Rayleigh
• Scattering, rough surfaces
• Scattering, stimulated
• Scattering, stimulated Brillouin
• Scattering, stimulated Raman
• Scintillation
• Turbid media

Optics | Meteorology