Abstract

The intensity and polarization of skylight, measured at the surface, can be used as a passive remote sensing tool to provide information on the optical properties of aerosols in the atmosphere. Wang and Gordon¹ have discussed techniques to use measurements of the intensity of skylight to obtain much of the aerosol phase function. Zhang and Gordon (this meeting) show that elements of the aerosol polarized scattering matrix (Mueller matrix) can be obtained if the Stokes vector of the downwelling skylight is known.²

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